In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

A large-scale study tracing human disease history back 37,000 years has identified harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites ...

The Ukrainian hamlet Mykhailivka, now under Russian occupation, was pinpointed as the genetic cradle of the Yamnaya. From ...

Imagine a world where enormous cats once prowled the wilderness with teeth so long, they looked like ivory daggers. Most ...

The ancient history of Africa included great empires and many civilizations, but it was probably not the cradle of humanity, which came from modern humans leaving Eurasia and mixing with Denisovans in ...

In 2013, the festival took its first international step with a session in Tokyo. By 2015, it had expanded to cities across Korea including Seoul, Daegu, Gwangju, and Busan. Over the years, with more ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.