Learn more about the people who once used Grotta della Monaca as a sacred burial site.

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was.

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

In what is a bittersweet mirror to the past, the oldest evidence of what appears to be a domestic cat was unearthed in 2004, ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have unveiled the genetic and cultural intricacies of a Bronze Age community in ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

An ambitious new plans for reforming football will blend a creative and technical approach with ideas drawn from national ...

First the science. As part of the original study, a forensic examination of the Beachy Head Lady’s skull found traits ...