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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Avocado remains from El Gigante illustrate how ancient farmers domesticated crops to adapt to changing environments. The ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

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