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 ...

The nearly 5,000-year-old remains of a "sacrificial ass" and three other donkeys from a faraway land have been discovered ...

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

The Native American remains belong to Seminole and Miccosukee tribes in Florida and Oklahoma. They can be returned as early ...

In a world increasingly driven by mass production and digital abstraction, Ducrot’s countercultural embrace of slow, ...

Afascinating discovery in Turkey has captured the attention of scientists and archaeologists alike. A 4,000-year-old human ...

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

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

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

A shocking discovery of ancient human remains on Antarctica's Yámana Beach raises tantalizing questions about early human ...

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