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 ...

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

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...

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

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

A newly discovered Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast has revealed the first fossilized footprints of these ancient humans in the region. A new international study published in Scientific ...

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

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

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...

New research reveals that early humans changed Europe’s landscapes long before farming began, using fire and hunting to alter ecosystems.

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.