Fossilized footprints found in both Laetoli, Tanzania, and Trachilos, Crete, may be the earliest evidence of upright walking.

Two iron ankle shackles, buried for about 2,200 years in the Egyptian desert, have revealed new evidence of forced labor.

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ...

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Kurdish militants who have been waging a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire. The move comes just two days ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...