People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

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New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a ...

Ancient canoes found in the bed of Lake Mendota in Madison are giving insight to indigenous ways of life for people living in ...

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early ...