Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, ...

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

Prominent Iranian political activist, Kianoosh Sanjari, who took his own life on Wednesday in an act of protest, was buried ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

Kennedy abandoned his presidential bid after striking a deal to have a role in health policy in the administration.

A collection of skulls and shrunken heads has been removed from a leading auction site, but the trade in human remains is ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...