Archaeologists have uncovered ancient bones in a Vietnamese cave. The remains may belong to one of the world’s earliest ...

A fossilized toe bone from South Africa shows that cancer afflicted early human ancestors 1.7 million years ago. Evidence ...

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

That's several thousands of years older than the cultures best known for mummification, the Chinchorro people of Chile, who ...

The human bones found in the Thames are concentrated at the end of the prehistoric period, suggesting that they are ritual ...

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child belonged to neither Homo sapiens, who had arrived in the region from Africa, ...

Archaeologists find hundreds of Maya bones in the Cave of Blood, Guatemala, with traces of rituals, violence, and sacred ...

The commodification of human remains sits at the uneasy intersection of law, science and ethics. The trade thrives because of ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a ...