We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Learn more about the human tailbone and how, even though we may not have a strict need for it anymore, it still helps us with ...

What did people use instead of toilet paper? Seashells, tapestries, wooden sticks and more. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming ...

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

Instead, people commonly slept in two shifts each night, often called a “first sleep” and “second sleep.” Each of these sleeps lasted several hours, separated by a gap of wakefulness for an hour or ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution had shockingly high contents of lead, which may have been the ...

By studying antelope fossils, researchers can revisit long-standing questions about how the Cradle of Humankind’s environment ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...