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

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 – ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

What did that feel like for him?” Boddice asked. I stared for a few seconds while Boddice smiled encouragingly, as if he’d ...

Archaic humans living in the Levant around 120,000 years ago were highly selective hunters who carefully targeted prime-aged female wild cattle, rather than engaging in the mass hunting events that ...

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...