Thousands of years before stone houses or mud bricks, Ice Age humans in Ukraine were building shelters out of mammoth bones.

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

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

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

Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

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

SAMBALPUR: Emphasising that science and technological knowledge must ultimately serve humanity, Union Education Minister ...