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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. At ...

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