A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.

This work underscores the importance of southern China as a refuge during glacial extremes and unveils narratives of human ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially re-writing the story of human evolution.

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

The new study showed that the frequency of people with dark skin was still high in parts of Europe until the Copper Age (also ...

Archeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest human face in Western Europe. Dated at between 1.1 and 1.4 million ...

Found at the Sima del Elefante Site in the Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain, the prehistoric face and its long-dead owner ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...