Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

A significant archaeological find in Saudi Arabia reveals a 13,500-year-old settlement, challenging perceptions of early ...

Mosquitoes haven't always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot ...

The Rings of Power takes place in this time period – though the timeline for the show has been shortened considerably. The ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

For decades, historians believed civilization began around 4000–6000 BC. But new discoveries have begun to challenge that timeline. Sites like Göbekli Tepe, buried around 9600 BC, reveal massive stone ...

The first African Diaspora centered interactive web platform that weaves together the histories of African peoples and ...

HENDERSON COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Michael Lee Absher, the founder of a now-defunct homeless youth shelter called Only Hope WNC and a former Henderson County School Board member, has been charged with ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previous studies indicated, rewriting our understanding of early human ...

A new analysis dates three Homo erectus skulls from central China to about 1.77 million years ago, making them the oldest securely dated hominin fossils in eastern Asia. That older age shifts the ...

Frontal views of the first two Yunxian crania. Credit: Hua Tu et al. / CC BY-NC 4.0 Three ancient skulls found in central China are far older than scientists once believed, pushing back the timeline ...