Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

The small-bodied hominin, named Homo luzonensis, lived on the island of Luzon at least 50,000 to 67,000 years ago. The hominin—identified from a total of seven teeth and six small bones—hosts ...

Israeli researchers uncovered dozens of newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments containing biblical texts dating back ...

Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools. They didn ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found 6,000-year-old skeletons from Colombia with ancient DNA that could rewrite human history. The incredible remains belonging to hunter-gatherers at the ancient preceramic si… ...

Genetic material was extracted from teeth and bones of 21 skeletons dating from 6000 to 500 years old. The researchers argue the oldest remains must have been from a lingering branch of the first ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 6,000-year-old skeletons in Colombia that belonged to a mysterious group of people that could rewrite human history. The remains, discovered at the ancient preceramic ...

DNA from nine prehistoric skeletons, dated as far back as about 9,000 years ago, shows that early inhabitants near the southern Cape Province of South Africa experienced minimal population changes ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.

Oldest discovered Homo sapiens skeletons: 315,000 years old Where these early fossils were found: Jebel Irhoud, Morocco What experts found: The fossil skeletons of 22 humans ...

The four skeletons had all of their limbs. Death dates were key because three men were buried together, allowing the team to pinpoint three soldiers who died around the same time.

One of them comes from the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia and has been attributed to Homo habilis. The other two were discovered in South Africa—a jaw found in Kromdraai and a maxilla from the Drimolen ...