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 ...

Thousands watched on as Pope Leo led his first Christmas mass at St. Peter's Basilica. Pope Leo XIV held the first Christmas ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Analysis - New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who ...

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 ...