While the topic of this book might seem a little depressing, it is really a powerful wake-up call to all of us, based on the ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled its top 10 archaeological ...

Ochre clay used in body painting gave our ancestors protection against a rise in harmful UV radiation, say scientists ...

Just because Homo sapiens hadn’t yet developed the ... systems upon the globe and noted where both H. sapiens and Neanderthals had lived. The two groups of early and modern humans co-existed in Europe ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Yuval Noah Harari’s books illuminate history, technology, and society with bold and interesting insights. A compelling ...