The video looks at unresolved questions in early human history, from tools and migrations to the Peking Man remains found near Beijing. It explains how fossils and ancient sites add evidence while lea ...

A stretch of hillside south of Haifa has yielded an unexpected window into a distant chapter of human history. Archaeologists working near the town of Fureidis are uncovering a prehistoric cave that ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Fu Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening new ways to study prehistoric human activity. This interdisciplinary study ...

We know who left behind prehistoric cave paintings. We have enough evidence from the various materials left behind, along with plenty of skeletal remains, to piece together a reasonably accurate image ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ archaeological treasure trove within Wogan Cavern, a massive subterranean chamber hidden directly beneath the 11th-century Pembroke Castle. While ...

A 1.45-million-year-old shin bone discovered in northern Kenya has revealed a disturbing possibility about human evolution: our ancient relatives may have been eating one another hundreds of thousands ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to ...

For the first time, scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls. The search took place at caves throughout Spain and Portugal known for prehistoric paintings, including Spain’s famed ...

Introduction -- A fragile start -- The rise of farming -- The rise and fall of civilizations -- Climate and civilizations of the Middle Ages -- The Little Ice Age -- Humans take over -- The future is ...

Plague is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in recorded history. The Justinian Plague ravaged the Mediterranean region and beyond from A.D. 541 to 750, and the 14th-century outbreak known as ...