The mystery of a Stone Age teenager's death has been solved — 80 years after he was found in an ancient burial ground in ...

AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene, and of those, just 3,500 are estimated to display the physiological ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

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 ...

The research team revisited the remains of the richly buried adolescent from Arene Candide Cave in Liguria, northwest Italy, using detailed surface inspection and microscopic assessment of healing.

Prehistoric art, as revealed by a 70,000-year-old handprint, is now seen as a fundamental human survival strategy rather than ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

The findings strongly support the idea that Neolithic builders intentionally transported the stones over vast distances.

In a new memoir and her first-ever interview, Reshona Landfair details her decade-long abusive relationship with the imprisoned singer and how she's reached the final step in her healing ...

Wood's perishability has long obscured early toolkits, with prior records like Germany's 300,000-year-old Schöningen spears ...