Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating ...

Ancient humans in northern China endured dramatic climate changes, creating new tools, hunting methods, and strategies to ...

The theory was that Anatolia, the region in which Ayvalık is situated, and Europe were linked during the last Ice Age, offering early humans a path to cross over via southward island-hopping routes.

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Learn how a landmass in the Aegean sea might have helped humans move from Anatolia into Europe from the east.

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

The first ever recorded kiss happened 4,500 years ago, scientists have suggested, after discovering evidence which puts the ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. The COVID-19 pandemic was, at its heart, a ...

Archaeological excavations at Aşıklı Höyük, a 10,000-year-old settlement located in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...