For centuries, historians assumed the Amazon rainforest was too dense and harsh to support massive ancient cities. The ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 6,000-year-old human skeletons in Colombia that possess a DNA profile unlike any other known to science. This unique genetic lineage, which has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Denisovan leg bones found beneath the sea offer scientists a rare look at the size and build of this mysterious extinct ...

The work of archeologists involves a daunting task: to determine the places and ways in which our ancient human ancestors lived based on an extremely limited amount of information. While historians ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

A study of rare fossils has revealed what our ancient human ancestors, the Denisovans, might have looked like.

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

Outside a small cave in Israel in 1928, archaeologists discovered what many still believe is the oldest human cemetery in the world. Laid out in shallow graves were the partial remains of seven adults ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...