The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A tiny copper-alloy tool long overlooked in a museum collection is reshaping what archaeologists know about the origins of human engineering. Researchers said the artefact shows ancient Egyptians were ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about early technology. Carved from wood and preserved in Greek sediments, it now ...