The Manchester Museum in England is inviting guests to share feedback on Asru, an ancient Egyptian woman whose body was ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

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

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

The fragments of this hominin face were discovered in 2022 inside a cave called Sima del Elefante, where some of Europe's ...

The research team, including Iversen and Martin Sikora, a palaeogeneticist at the University of Copenhagen, had previously ...

Scientists studying ancient human remains uncovered in Colombia have found that the people they were researching have no ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.