An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

In the lush landscape of northern Zambia, a stunning archaeological discovery at Kalambo Falls has reshaped our understanding of ancient human ingenuity.

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Sharjah: Step into Sharjah 's newly inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site and you are not just walking through desert wadis ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Billy Joel famously sang, we didn't start the fire - it was always burning since the world's been turning. But that's not entirely true. Humans do start fires to cook, to heat, to gather around.

Evidence of a hearth dating to about 415,000 years ago Researchers think that Neanderthals were responsible Discovery made near the village of Barnham in Suffolk Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have ...