When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

Depictions of dogs in Maya art and archaeological finds point to a variety of possible roles in the ancient culture.

A new study by Columbia University historian John Ma has uncovered evidence of a hidden army operating within the Roman Empire during the first century AD. Published in the Journal of Roman Studies, ...

A massive study of ancient genomes has revealed that natural selection acted on hundreds of human genes throughout recent ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in Ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.

Pushing back the domestication timeline by 5,000 years via ancient DNA, a new study suggests that dogs lived with humans 14,000 to 16,000 years ago.

Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production ...