Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Discovered in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany, Homo heidelbergensis bridged the gap between Homo erectus and both Neanderthals and modern humans. This powerful species spread across Africa and Europe, ...

يوجد هذا الموقع المتسلسل في وادي الأواش الأعلى بإثيوبيا، وهو عبارة عن مجموعة من مواقع ما قبل التاريخ التي تحافظ على سجلات أثرية وأحفورية ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

Rarely has a single find changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past as radically as the discovery of the world’s earliest known wooden architecture, which dates to nearly half a ...

As we celebrate our 125th year, we do so with a renewed sense of purpose. Guided by our strategic vision and driven by our shared values, we are confident that we will rise to meet this moment and ...