Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film. Though the remains were first excavated and documented in the 1960s, they ...

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

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

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

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.

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

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

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

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

The National Museum of Romanian History has announced an extraordinary archaeological discovery in Mangalia, southeastern ...

For the first time, scientists decoded a complete genome from a 4,800-year-old Egyptian, revealing surprising Middle Eastern ...