An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

If true, this would make The Prince fossil the oldest known example of a modern human killed by a wild animal, and possibly ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

The oldest Stone Age cremation, carried out 9,500 years ago in a remote rock shelter, has been found in Africa.

For over a century and a half, life expectancy has steadily increased in the wealthiest countries. Spectacular climbs in ...

Cheese has been around for centuries, with some styles hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. Here are several of the oldest cheese styles in the world.

Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia reveals the oldest genome of "Treponema pallidum" yet, sharpening ...

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after authorities say he robbed multiple graves at a historic cemetery, and they found over 100 sets of human remains at his home. The Yeadon Borough Police ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...