Do you know how exciting it is when we find something that completely alters our understanding of early human civilizations?

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

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

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

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for nearly 300,000 years despite the chaos of shifting climates. Picture early ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

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

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...