Known as “Queen Elizabeth of Houston,” Elizabeth Francis died this week at age 115, making her the oldest person in the ...

Gunung Padang, an ancient pyramid sitting on an extinct volcano in West Java, Indonesia, has baffled researchers for decades.

The oldest human viruses, including herpes, have been uncovered in 50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones - and experts could soon recreate them. Researchers at Brazil's Federal University of São ...

This age means the footprints may have been left by Homo antecessor, an early human species known to be present in Europe at that time. Not only are the footprints the earliest evidence yet of humans ...

and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have reconstructed the oldest human genomes ever found in South Africa from two people who lived about 10,000 years ago ...

These genomes provide a glimpse into some of the oldest human cultures ever discovered, showing remarkable similarity to modern local populations. Scientists from the University of Cape ...

A court in Russia has ordered the country's oldest human rights organisation to be closed down. The Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) was founded in 1976 and reports annually on the human rights ...

“Using a technique known as microstratigraphy at the Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, we were able to reconstruct the cave conditions in the past and identify traces of human activities in ...