On Dec. 18, 1912, a young amateur archaeologist said he discovered a 500,000-year-old skull in England gravel pit.

In the book “Cursed,” the Brooklyn-based photographer and director Charlie Engman intentionally leans into the strangeness of ...

Research shows a link between Zlatý kůň and Ranis, early European modern humans who retained African traits, lacked ...

An exhibit in Warsaw includes artwork Jews created for the Nazi-appointed Jewish leader of the ghetto, as a strategy for ...

Visitors will have a chance to view St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull up close in Baltimore, and perhaps absorb some of its holiness.

Israel said Sunday it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorated over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian ...

In the 1970s, archaeologists unearthed prehistoric human remains from a deep underground shaft in Somerset, England. The ...

Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday.

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...