Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe's population in late Neolithic times—from around 5,600 ...

The Omnia sites in western Siberia may be among the oldest known fortified settlements in the world, dating to about 8,000 years ago. Kayleigh explains how hunter-gatherers built pit houses, ditches, ...

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Archaeologists working in southeastern Turkey have identified construction layers at a site called Çakmaktepe that could push ...

For most people, the word mummy immediately conjures images of ancient Egypt, gilded pharaohs and elaborate tombs along the ...

For decades, popular imagination has painted Neanderthals as pure carnivores, hulking hunters who survived almost entirely on ...

A prehistoric cave found near Foreidis in northern Israel offers a rare glimpse of a little-known phase of human evolution.

You don’t need to look far on these islands to find Stone Age burial sites, but the places where Guernsey’s first inhabitants ...

Scientists have discovered the earliest known traces of plague, dating back about 5,500 years, around 200 years earlier than previously believed. The study results were ...

The human brain did not evolve to wake up with an alarm clock, check strangers’ achievements on social media, learn about the latest global disaster and calculate its social worth before breakfast.

Hyderabad-based Dr Kumarasamy Thangaraj studied DNA from the Great Andamanese and Onge tribes, helping science look at India’s human past with proof instead of old assumptions about appearances and ...