A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was ...

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.