For over a century, reports of giant human skeletons have surfaced across the United States - from Nevada caves to Ohio burial mounds. Newspapers documented massive bones, oversized tools, and remains ...

Evidence of a Roman industrial hub in North East England dating back over 1,900 years has been unearthed.The "extraordinary" ...

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A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

For centuries, ancient Egypt was credited as the cradle of the human-cat relationship—think sacred temples, hieroglyphs, and ...

Earliest evidence of poisoned arrows offers new insights into the advanced technology and strategic thinking of prehistoric ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.