Ancient Aboriginal Murujuga rock art in Australia has been granted UNESCO world heritage status, after a campaign which lasted almost two decades.

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya is not only the oldest head of state worldwide, but also Africa’s second-longest serving head ...

Israel, in confronting these threats at their source, is not merely defending itself. It is shielding the broader world from the spread of jihadist ideology and theocracy. Its pre-emptive strikes, ...

A red dot on a face-shaped rock in Spain may be setting records in more ways than one. At roughly 43,000 years old, the dot may be the oldest human fingerprint on record and also one of the ...

As anti-reservation sentiments grow, only data, facts and accurate information can provide solutions, says professor in ...

As Professor Chris Stringer, a human origins expert at the Natural History Museum, explains: "These finds currently represent the oldest association of probable early members of the Homo sapiens ...

Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, members of the Park Slope Food co-op have been debating whether to ban Israeli ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

Beezler, a 32-year-old Asiatic black bear that had lived at Colorado’s Cheyenne Mountain Zoo since she was a cub, was euthanized on Sunday, zoo officials said.

Archaeologists have found the oldest human occupied Pleistocene site at high elevation in the Blue Mountains NSW, dating back to 20,000 years ...