A team of scientists teamed up to date and identify the collection of more than 6,000 fossils, placing them between 131,000 ...

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

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ...

Genome-wide analysis of 93 skeletons from Israel, Jordan and Lebanon traces an unbroken genetic thread across three millennia.

What makes this vista particularly special is how it captures the essence of Pennsylvania’s natural beauty in one sweeping ...

That’s exactly what happens at Indian Echo Caverns in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania – a subterranean wonderland that somehow remains one of the state’s best-kept secrets despite being, well, absolutely ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...