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 ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Deep within the rolling hills of central Israel, Tinshemet Cave is rewriting our understanding of humanity's earliest burial practices. Recent excavations at this remarkable site have uncovered some ...

Archaeologists reexamined stone tools found decades ago in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland, and discovered they are far older than once believed. Dated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, ...