Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

Massive migration has been one of the central forces shaping human history. Long before modern borders and passports, people ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the arid deserts of Saudi Arabia: human footprints that date back approximately 115,000 years. These footprints challenge previous notions about ...

A detail shot of Mary Ann Unger's "Across the Bering Strait" (1992–94), currently on view at Berry Campbell in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood through May 17 (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...

A newly discovered prehistoric land bridge between Turkey and Europe has added an “entirely new page” to the history of human migration. After conducting a two-week survey in 2022, a team of female ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Turkey, uncovering a lost land bridge that could significantly alter our understanding of human migration and European history. This remarkable ...

Originally published in the UK by Old Street Publishing Ltd in 2024. "A succinct account of human migration--from our wanderings in and out of Africa to the US-Mexico border wall"-- Provided by ...

This great migration brought our species to a position of world dominance that it has never relinquished and signaled the extinction of whatever competitors remained—Neanderthals in Europe and Asia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...