Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

For decades, the human niche for viruses related to smallpox has remained mostly empty. Since eradicating smallpox, only rare ...

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Greece reveals the first known Homo sapiens outside Africa, reshaping our understanding of ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals a unique group of people who thrived in the once-lush Sahara.

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...