Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

Recent archaeological findings suggest that early modern humans arriving in Europe around 45,000 years ago may have been ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The genetic origins of modern Europeans may be more complicated that previously thought. Ancient people from Siberia who were related to the first humans to enter the Americas ...

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Pioneering groups of humans braved icy conditions to settle in northern Europe more than 45,000 years ago, a "huge surprise" that means they could have lived there alongside Neanderthals, scientists ...

Hippos survived in icy Europe far longer than thought, revealing surprising warmth and resilience during Ice Age.