A new study on Neanderthals reveals the startling discovery of a group that lived in complete isolation for 50,000 years, ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

Discovered in a cave on the island of Sulawesi, experts think the stencil was made by our species at least 67,800 years ago.

As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

An international team of archaeologists and researchers has found the oldest-known rock art in the world, dating ...

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New research suggests ancient human species like Homo erectus could speak, reshaping our understanding of early human ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

65,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘tar factory’ found in Gibraltar cave A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Vanguard Cave, ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of ...

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