A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

The identity of a mysterious artifact found in Devon almost 160 years ago has finally been revealed. New research has ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

A recent study has unveiled the earliest genetic evidence of domestic dogs, pushing back our timeline of when humans first partnered with canines. By analyzing ancient dog DNA, researchers identified ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens. Reconstruction of a Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis), based on ...

Erich von Däniken proposed that monumental structures such as the pyramids could have been built with help from aliens. Stefan Baumann Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without ...