Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early ...

The mysterious stone alignments of the Carnac region in Brittany, France, are, along with Stonehenge, Menga, and the ...

A closer look at the burial of a man born of incest 5,000 years ago reveals he was unlikely to have been a god-king.

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

A team of Czech researchers discovered the skeletons of two women and a newborn buried more than 6,000 years ago in a flint ...

A study of more than 100 genomes from people who lived in ancient China has unmasked a "ghost" in their midst.