An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers led by Francesc Marginedas, of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, discovered ...

Ancient societies that collapsed so completely their fate remains unsolved ...

The Old Irish Goat isn’t just part of folklore — it’s genetically linked to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago. Scientists analyzed ancient remains and discovered that today’s rare breed ...

Human remains have been increasingly studied using interdisciplinary approaches. These have enabled researchers to investigate what ancient people may have looked like and to trace patterns of ...

Scientists at the world’s only mummy research institute are combing crypts and caverns for ancient remains—and using new tools to gather fresh insight about how our ancestors once lived. Unlike their ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to ...

An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The ...

Genetics research has been fundamental in our understanding of human history, including this shocking twist in the story of human evolution. For decades now, scientists have pieced together the story ...

Researchers say the discoveries are “inconsistent with ritual or survival scenarios.” A team of researchers led by Francesc Marginedas, of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social ...