In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

Oldest known human fingerprint discovered on ancient Neanderthal artwork by David Álvarez Alonso, Andrés Díez Herrero, María de Andrés-Herrero, Miguel Angel Mate Gonzalez, The Conversation ...

But nearly 40 years after his 1959 discovery, John R. Johnson, Orr’s successor at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, determined that the bones were more than 13,000 years old—making ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

In 2021, researchers working in New Mexico published a paper that contributed to what remains one of the most controversial ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

In Karla’s Choice, Nick Harkaway takes up his father John le Carré’s most enduring creation, returning George Smiley back to ...