The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

The Inuit have survived and thrived for generations in one of most remote, vast and rugged places on Earth, hunting for seals ...

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 Iron-Age metal artifacts, which was found in a field near ...

Certain species of ground squirrels hibernate underground without any food or water for up to eight months of the year. It’s ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered the oldest known human face in Western Europe, a 1.4 million-year-old skull fragment found ... to thrive in the harsh European landscape.

Bowman Sculpture is presenting Subconscious Playground, the debut solo exhibition of British contemporary sculptor Joanna ...

Compared to other European powers, Germany was late to colonialism ... The foundation in 2023 connected research dots and linked 1,135 human skulls to present-day Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human ... European counterparts are limited to an isolated tooth, a fragment of jaw and a partial ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the Sima del Elefante cave, located in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain, is changing what we know about the first humans in Western Europe. Researchers have identified a ...