Archaeologists uncover a 500,000-year-old elephant bone tool in Europe, offering rare insight into early human innovation.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

Archaeologists in England recently discovered the sixth- and seventh-century graves, which also contained numerous weapons ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

The 1,400 year-old "sand burials" of two people and a horse were found near a nuclear power plant construction site in the ...

Researchers excavating at a site in northern Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have unearthed bone implements made by human ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This is around a million years earlier than scholars ...

The extraordinary archaeological discovery found in Worcestershire is set to feature on a popular television show tonight.

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...