The beachside town of Kailua could be designated a burial ground, affording more protection to a roughly estimated 3,000 ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

Archaeologists discover two 2,300-year-old Celtic swords encrusted with glass and copper in France, revealing ancient ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...