Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

So Homo longi was a Denisovan all along, and thanks to the remarkably well-preserved skull, we finally know what the ...

"To me he looks like a young man with a delicate face… Looking at him, we see more of a young student than a politician full ...

Archaeologists have estimated the ancient structure ... the skull of a canine, and the skull of an eagle covered with volcanic rock. The serpentine stone mask was so delicately carved and ...

Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl.

CT scans also revealed a fracture extending from the front of the skull all the way to the rear with no signs of healing. The ...

An ancient skull found in a cave in Spain reveals evidence of ancient surgery attempts. The skull has a large dent that is partially healed, indicating an attempt at brain surgery that was halted.

One of the newly unearthed Saqqara masks was discovered outside a Greco-Roman catacomb discovered in 2019. Made of clay, it was wedged above a human skull and surrounded by fragments of a striated ...

Lesions found in ancient skulls suggest that cancer could have been a medical issue long before our time. Ancient Egyptian skulls studied at the Duckworth Laboratory Collection at the University ...