Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how ...