For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

Located in western Tunisia, the plants operated between the third and sixth centuries and likely helped supply precious olive ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.