Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered fragments of the world’s oldest rune stone in Svingerud burial field, dating back to 50 BC–275 AD.

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found ... with dating technology--are the sole known human remains from the Old Stone Age (12,000 years ...

A team of researchers from the University of Oslo uncovered fragments of runestones older than 2,000 years at the ancient ...

Analysis of the human remains, and dating of the site and the fossil itself, indicate a likely age of at least 177,000 years for the fossil—making it the oldest member of the Homo sapiens clade ...

NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human remains in Japan, are actually bear bones.

And it’s also home to the oldest known remains of a gorgonopsian, an important ancestor of modern mammals — a fact that could change our understanding of their migration and evolutionary history.

The Legacy Center collections include historical human remains, most of which were acquired originally ... and over the next century, it became known as “Harriet” throughout the medical world. An 1888 ...