The human remains, which may be around 8,000 years old, were found in China next to a pit containing numerous turtle shell rattles.

NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human remains in Japan, are actually bear bones.

So many of the oldest clues about humanity's earliest days have been preserved under the valley's fertile, human soil, ...

In 1903, workers digging a ditch in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, England uncovered the astonishingly well-preserved remains ...

Archaeologists in Italy have found one of the oldest known cases of the bubonic plague, which has caused millions of deaths ...

Roughly 7,000-year-old cords found in a stunning Spanish cave are Europe's oldest bowstrings made of ... miners in the cave discovered artifacts and human remains within the cave.

scientists have found clue to the oldest known evidence of blue eyes in human history. The archaeologists were able to reconstruct the appearance, ancestry, and health from the remains of a 17,000 ...

"In fact, when we started this excavation, we never thought we would find so many remains of an animal of ... saber-tooth' of Banyalbufar is the oldest known ancestor of mammals on the planet.

Follow live coverage of the state funeral of the 39th US president Jimmy Carter in Washington following his death at the age ...

In June 2021, the fossils of a three-year-old male child dating back 78,000 years were found in a grave at the Panga ya Saidi ...

These hardy people of the ice age, known as the ... Republic - the oldest genetic specimens of modern humans yet found. It turns out the LRJ people were part of the early human expansion from ...

THE remains of a man believed to be from "year ... just days after scientists claimed to have unearthed the world's oldest human DNA in Europe. In a cave under a medieval castle, 13 bone fragments ...