Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The stencil, which had remained largely unnoticed amidst more recent paintings of animals and figures, is now the oldest artwork ever discovered. In fact, it is so old that it offers a rare glimpse ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, happened around 15,200 years ago – nearly 500 years earlier than previous ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...

Understanding and addressing trafficking dynamics along the Indonesia–Timor-Leste border is therefore critical for Australia, ...

Amid the falling sleet and snow, winds are expected to develop in the afternoon and evening, especially along the coast, ...

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave painting. The discovery fills a crucial gap in tracing the path of our species' ...

A U.S. Air Force crew chief guides in a F-35A Lightning II after actions in Venezuela in support of Operation Absolute ...

At 55, Himachal Pradesh faces debt, climate shocks and jobless growth. How land reforms gave way to neoliberal stress—and why ...