They might just rewrite the history of human migration.

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising information about early British history. Hunter-gatherer genes were prevalent in ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered seven fossilized human footprints, about 115,000 years old, preserved in a prehistoric lakebed in the Nefud Desert. The rare preservation offers direct ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...

Archaeologists have unearthed skeletons with their hands apparently bound behind their backs, who were decapitated or had ...

Archaeologists in Southeast Asia have uncovered stone tools and fishing gear that suggest advanced seafaring existed 40,000 ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.