Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

Another surprising finding from this study concerns the ancient Jomon people from the Japanese archipelago and the ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Tragedy struck in the heart of Rome when a worker died after a partial collapse of the medieval tower known as the Torre dei ...

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

The Early Life Of Cleopatra | Ancient Egypt's Last Pharaoh This video is an extended trailer for the History Hit TV ...