Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

An ancient Norwegian saga recounts a man thrown into a well during a castle siege, potentially as an early act of biological ...

Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, ...

The tomb, known as "Tomb 26," was unearthed in the 1970s during excavations of a cemetery in Pommerœul, near the French ...

It’s not always easy for the public to appreciate, he added, “until you start looking at a skeleton.” Emily Anthes is a science reporter, writing primarily about animal health and science.

Back in the 1970s, when archaeologists excavated a skeleton from an ancient graveyard in Belgium, they thought they had found a typical Roman burial. But during a recent reexamination of the bones, ...

The eerie site, which served a community for over a century, now appears frozen in time from the moment it was deserted - ...

Archaeologists have unravelled the mystery of a strange skeleton from Belgium consisting of bones from five people who lived 2,500 years apart. The skeleton, unearthed in the 1970s at a Roman ...

Kristina Killgrove is an archaeologist with specialties in ancient human skeletons and science communication. Her academic research has appeared in numerous scientific journals, while her news ...

NASA’s Artemis programme will send the first woman and the next man to the Moon. By using advanced technology, they will ...

Stories on the discovery of vital fluid-transport systems in the human body are among the winners of the 2024 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Winning journalists also did immersive stories on ...