A beautiful country has been named among the friendliest in the world and is 28C in December. South Africa is the ...

We propose in a recently published review paper that the coast of southern Africa was likely where Homo sapiens began the ...

Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

Ancient cave paintings dating back 65,000 years are turning human history on its head. Found in remote caves across four continents, these artworks suggest a shocking origin—and they weren’t made by ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...

Delikli Cave has emerged as a significant archaeological site in the study of human history. Located about 60 meters above the current level of Lake Van in the Adilcevaz district, the cave has yielded ...

In 1941, two men dug into Arizona’s past and found a gold mine of history. Emil Haury, with his Harvard degree, teamed up with Julian Hayden, who learned archaeology in the field. They cut through 12 ...