A groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica has left scientists both amazed and baffled: the oldest human remains ever found.

That's several thousands of years older than the cultures best known for mummification, the Chinchorro people of Chile, who ...

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An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...

Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 ...

The finding, which was published in Nature, may provide insight into the origins of humanity’s use of symbols, which laid the foundation for language, mathematics and civilization. p pulse Follow Nine ...

A symposium marking 30 years of joint efforts between Chinese and US archaeologists in East China’s Shandong Province ...