National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ...

Fragments of a fossilized face found at Sima del Elefante in northern Spain represent the oldest known human remains in Western Europe. Dated to around 1.4 million years ago, the discovery does not ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This episode explains the multiple migration waves, the role of climate change, ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Thus, the Torah tells the Jewish umma, and the Qur’an tells the Muslim umma, the importance of picking yourself up and going (Hajj in Arabic, Hag in Hebrew) with masses of other members of your umma, ...

The Hungarian writer delivered his Nobel Prize lecture in his own language at a ceremony in Stockholm on December 7.

This week, Congress has advanced the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) toward becoming law.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Scientists in northeastern Ethiopia said Saturday that they have discovered the skull of a small human ancestor that could be a missing link between the extinct Homo erectus ...