A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

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The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

According to Ancient Minoan marriage rules, first cousin marriages were nothing unusual in the particular society.

In Ontario, where ancient Indigenous burial grounds and village sites lie beneath rapidly expanding suburbs, the government ...

Archaeologists have found human remains and what is believed to be the world's oldest vintage in a 2,000 year-old glass ...

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