Scientists believe that recent analysis of a find from the 1970's can offer us insights into the lives of ancient humans.

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Analysis of a shin bone found in a rock cave in Colombia suggests the sexually transmitted disease is much older than ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by Indonesian ...

The image of kangaroos hopping their way across the Australian outback is iconic – and it turns out it might have been an ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains revealed that syphilis circulated in the Americas thousands of years earlier than ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

Hand stencil paintings found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi could be the world's oldest of cave art, ...