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 ...

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

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

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

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...