Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related diseases. The ancient strain doesn’t fit neatly into modern categories, ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Four massive stone funnels discovered in Europe could change the way we understand prehistoric hunting practices, revealing an advanced level of communal organization.

The serendipitous discovery by locals of skeletal remains at a seventh-century monastic site in the aftermath of Storm Eowyn ’s mass felling of trees last January has further established the rich ...

The boy’s burial is as striking as his injuries. Hundreds of pierced shells formed a headdress. Ivory pendants and carved antlers accompanied him. A long flint blade—likely a prestige object—rested in ...

The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...

Officers have issued an update on their investigation into the discovery of human remains in ancient woodland in Walsall as ...

Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than ...

A little known scientific experiment saw ancient human remains launched beyond Earth to study how extreme space conditions affect fossilized bone. Researchers examined radiation exposure, microgravity ...

Far below the waves, where sunlight never reaches, a fragment of bone has forced scientists to redraw parts of the human family tree. An ancient jaw dredged from the seafloor between China and Taiwan, ...