Far from the baby-cheeked cherubs of Renaissance art, they were fiery beings who inspired fear.

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

While there are many ancient texts focusing on Jesus as a baby and as a man, much less is known about him as a child. Here’s ...

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 earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, offering a ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

A late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age grave has revealed ancient strategies to keep the dead from turning into “revenants” and ...

The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...