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Beer, goats, and grains: here's what the oldest document reveals.
More than memorializing a math mistake, stone tablets show just how advanced the Babylonians were in their time.
Most of us have Neanderthal ancestors, and now scientists how revealed important details about how their DNA shape us today.
Scientists have identified evidence of a new ancient human species, Homo juluensis, from fossils in East Asia.
Ancient hunter-gatherers shattered gender stereotypes with shared mastery of running, climbing, swimming, and diving.
Researchers propose a stunning new theory for why Neanderthals and humans started to bury their dead at the same time.
Could kissing be a relic from our ancestors' grooming practices? A new study explores the origins.
Something like this would seem unimaginable for our Homo sapiens species.
The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions, infrastructure problems, and social welfare demands may then combine or clash, accumulating costs and backlash effects that the declining empire cannot manage. Policies aimed to strengthen empire—and that once did—now undermine it. Contemporary social changes […]
Algorithms have been manipulating you for a while. It's time to manipulate them back to find positivity and happiness.
They were not the rudimentary cavemen they're sometimes portrayed as.
Early Homo floresiensis was even smaller than previously thought and may have evolved from isolated Homo erectus populations.
It doesn't look like much to the untrained eye, but experts say it could be a 130,000-year-old sculpture.
The same ritual was also described until the 19th century.
These children are South America's earliest known victims of a deadly bone infection caused by the smallpox virus.
It's the oldest known case of Down syndrome.
It's a key finding for the birth of human civilization.
Neanderthal genes from ancient interbreeding may increase our susceptibility to autism.
The way Lucy has been depicted in newspapers, textbooks and museums shows how today’s cultural norms influence perceptions of the past.
This "new" diet has been around for thousands of years.
The timing of our teeth's eruption reveals how humans evolved long childhoods to support brain development and complex social skills.
New evidence is prompting researchers to rethink Homo sapiens’ origin story—and what it means to be human.
Early humans mastered fire-making, transitioning from using natural fires to intentionally creating and controlling flames.
Mirroring the Holy Roman Empire, the EU unites Europe's diverse nations into a powerful, peaceful alliance while maintaining each country's distinct identity.
The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that humans and their relatives fall into). Neanderthals are also vital for understanding the uniqueness or otherwise of our species, Homo sapiens. We shared an ancestor with the […]
The specters of war have haunted soldiers since humans first waged war on one another.
These cities had a lot of gardens and green spaces in between homes and other buildings
Humans, like many animals, spend a lot of time playing, an activity that may develop essential skills and foster cooperation, supporting our complex social structures.
Discovery of ancient viruses in Neanderthal remains may reshape our understanding of their extinction.
Running is one thing humans are really good at. Could that be owed to hunting?
The island was once connected to the Australian mainland.
New study challenges traditional views on human evolution with "bizarre" findings.
Very little research has been conducted in the area.
Climate change propelled the migration of our ancestors out of Africa and into Eurasia.
Study shows subtle changes in speech accents among Antarctica's few temporary inhabitants.
A new study suggests fermentation -- not fire -- as the catalyst of our more potent brains.
The 3D scans of ancient ape bones reveal new insights into the evolution of bipedalism.
Their faces were lost to the world. Now, science has brought them back.
From making baseball-sized spheres to colonizing rainforests with tool miniaturization, our ancestors did a lot.
Our ancestors left us an interesting legacy.
A butchered hominin fossil suggests our ancestors had a dark past.
Seaweed was popular in Europe long before it became a hit in Asia.
New findings in New Mexico offer the oldest direct evidence of humans in the Americas.
Their purpose still remains a mystery
Early humans endured a severe population bottleneck that shaped our species, according to new genomic findings.
Beyond his physical characteristics, this refined genome sequencing reveals important insight into prehistoric human migrations in Europe.
AI may look all set to replace human artists, engineers, writers, and coders, but preachers are probably safe.
It protected them from the sun’s harmful rays.
Skeleton discovered in a tomb had been wrongly identified as a man.
New evidence challenges traditional gender roles in hunter-gatherer societies.
