There's only so long the human body can last, and scientists think they've found the maximum age humans could theoretically ...

The piece of cranium, found in 1985 on Yámana Beach, is believed to be the oldest human remains ever discovered in the South Pole region, potentially dating back to the early 19th Century. The find ...

A stone wall discovered deep inside Theopetra Cave in central Greece may be the oldest surviving human-built structure ever ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

Previously, some of the oldest mummies on earth were known to be in South America and dated back to about 7,000 years ago Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...