The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Explore ancient discoveries that rewrite history, from Viking settlements to Göbekli Tepe. Uncover how archaeology challenges ...

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ archaeological treasure trove within Wogan Cavern, a massive ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

The texts span a vast expanse of time. The oldest shards date back to the third century B.C.E., featuring tax receipts penned ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

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The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...