Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...