Ancient DNA from 238 individuals reveals a 10,000-year genetic lineage in Argentina, uncovering lost human history.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

A new study maps 40,000 years of Denisovan and human interbreeding, showing how ancient DNA spread, faded, and shaped ...

Meanwhile, the absence of abfraction lesions in primates suggests that some of our most common dental problems are uniquely human. It's a reminder that even in something as everyday as toothache, our ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...