Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

Archaeologists were stunned when, during excavations in the extensive cave network of the Rock of Gibraltar, they spotted a new chamber that had remained sealed for about 40,000 years. The discovery ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a ...

An African hominin population that existed very early in the Homo sapiens lineage is providing new insights into humanity's ...

As a youngster growing up in Sheringham, I would sometimes visit the beach after a storm to find twisted metal and broken concrete where the sea ...

An ancient Jewish legend predicts that when the Messiah comes and resurrection day occurs; the Kaab’a in holy Mecca, will go to join the Temple Mount’s Foundation Stone in holy Jerusalem, bringing ...

The first discoveries in Cádiz date to the early 20th century. In 1914, French scholar Abbé Henri Breuil documented dozens of ...

Deep beneath the French countryside, in La Roche-Cotard cave, finger-drawn lines and dots lay hidden under 30 feet of ...