A groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica has left scientists both amazed and baffled: the oldest human remains ever found.

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Recent discoveries in archaeology have unveiled a previously unknown civilization that could fundamentally alter our ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

What’s most distinctive about humans as a species, viewed collectively in human history? Penelope J. Corfield from the Royal ...