Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Thousands of African objects "given, stolen and forcefully taken" at the height of the British Empire have gone on display at ...

With a well-timed T-shirt on SNL, Mike Myers brought Canadian nationalism to the zeitgeist – just one of many artists who ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

From Baton Rouge to Lynchburg, this artisan digs into documentary production design through costuming, sets, props and makeup.

A virgin and martyr of Syracuse in Sicily, whose feast is celebrated on December 13th. According to the tradition, Saint Lucy was born of rich and noble parents in the year 283. Her father was of ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...