Scientists have uncovered a new theory for why most humans are right-handed. A major study suggests upright walking and a rapidly expanding...

New genetic research reveals ancient human and Neanderthal interactions followed a surprising pattern. Scientists found more modern human D...

Scientists unearthed a Neanderthal infant, Amud 7, in Israel. Its bones and brain were larger than expected for its age. This suggests Nean...

New research suggests Neanderthals may have supplemented their meat-heavy diets with maggots and fermented animal foods. Chemical signature...

Homo sapiens was not the first human species to live outside of Africa - including the area encompassing the hub. Ancient interbreeding by ...

Bone fragments discovered in Ilsenhohle cave in central Germany have rewritten the early history of Homo sapiens in Europe. The findings, d...

A senior geo-archaeologist at the UCL Institute of Archaeology named Letty Ingrey describes the tools as ‘giants’ when they are anywhere ab...

The find announced Thursday would drag the dawn of Greek archaeology back by as much as a quarter of a million years.

Research by Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the medicine Nobel prize last week, helped reveal that people of European descent...

Orientalism — stereotyping cultures, histories and peoples through a colonial, and later, First World media, prism — is something that plag...

As researchers Israel Hershkovitz, Yossi Zaidner and colleagues detail in two companion studies published in Science, this archaic human co...

London, April 10 (IANS) Highly mobile eyebrows that can be used to express a wide range of subtle emotions helped modern humans in establis...

London, Feb 23 (IANS) It's not modern humans but Neanderthals who were the first known artists on Earth, say scientists who found evidence ...

London, Nov 18 (IANS) Researchers have found Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer in the Southern Iberia region, modern day Sp...

Obama lighting a lamp with his in the Oval Office and the UN building emblazoned with a diya and ‘Happy Diwali’, it seems festival exports ...

Mostly abandoned after a devastating earthquake in the 14th century, the ruins in Ani include a relatively well-preserved cathedral and hol...

An ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age, a 14,000 year-ol...