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

An excavation in Italy has unearthed the oldest and first known evidence of father-daughter incest in the archaeological record, a new genetic study reveals. The team found genetic clues of this ...

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

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

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where ...

Research into the Shimao culture of Stone Age China revealed a burial pit filled with skulls from about 4,000 years ago.