An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

The piece of cranium, found in 1985 on Yámana Beach, is believed to be the oldest human remains ever discovered in the South Pole region, potentially dating back to the early 19th Century. The find ...

The remains of a young woman found at a 2,000-year-old site are believed to show she was killed in a brutal, "theatrical" ...

New imaging has upended a decades-old assumption about Japan’s earliest “humans.” The finding doesn’t erase the past—it ...

A human skull believed to be around 4,270 years old was discovered along the bank of Whitewater River earlier this year and ...

Previously, some of the oldest mummies on earth were known to be in South America and dated back to about 7,000 years ago Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A ...

Mummifying the dead is a funerary rite that has been practiced for thousands of years in many locations across the world. A new discovery reveals that we may have been underestimating exactly how ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...