New analyses have overturned a long-taught chapter of Japanese prehistory: fossils from a Toyohashi quarry once hailed as the ...

"Early-life malnutrition has been consistently associated with reduced brain volume and cognitive impairments, highlighting the critical importance of adequate energy and nutrient intake during ...

Researchers have discovered what they believe to be the earliest evidence of artificial mummification known to science, pushing back the timeline for the burial ritual to far before the time of the ...

Scientists have performed genetic analysis on a previously unknown ancient Indigenous population in the Pampas region of ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...

Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula hides Sistema Ox Bel Ha, the world's longest explored underwater cave system, stretching over 524 ...

Ancient bones pulled from the soil of central South America are rewriting what I thought I knew about the peopling of the ...