Humans news stories
Scholars have found the first direct evidence that glass was produced in Sub-Saharan Africa centuries before the arrival of Europeans, thus representing a new chapter in the history of glass technology.
New research suggests early Homo sapiens brains entered the range of modern human brain size as early as 300,000 years ago, but its globular, round features emerged only 40,000 years ago.
Much more treasure might be buried under the surface of this east African country than was previously thought.
A documentary will unveil a prototype of the face of the first British man by analysing the DNA of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, in the UK’s most ambitious and cutting-edge Ancient DNA project to date.
What could have caused the chronological patterning of artifacts – human activity and/or past climate change? These questions are the focus of a new study published today.
The reward is fresh insight into the unique 364-day calendar used by members of the Judean Desert sect, including the discovery of the name given by the sect to the special days marking the transitions between the four seasons.
“First Face of America” provides a closeup look at two dangerous underwater expeditions that resulted in the discovery and salvaging of bones from one of the earliest known New World residents, dubbed Naia.
Scientists at Aberystwyth University have published a 150,000-year climatic record from Ethiopia, which shows conditions would have allowed early modern humans to move from Africa to Asia.
For the first time, engineers have shown it is possible to stably trap objects larger than the wavelength of sound in an acoustic tractor beam.
We’ve always heard that Stone Age people lived in caves. It turns out that they often lived in earthen huts, which they reused for centuries and kept up rather than building new ones.
The Ministry of Antiquities announced the start of excavation work in the Valley of the Monkeys on the West bank of the Nile in Luxor, to uncover a tomb dating back to the 18th Dynasty.
Its curators have found a voice, and one every museum should emulate: They are going to address difficult questions with nuance and courage.
Ornek explained his theory, saying that technologies were much more advanced 10,000 years ago than most people realize.
Scientists have used a new imaging technique to re-examine Egyptian art and find details that were previously missing.