Human remains have been increasingly studied using interdisciplinary approaches. These have enabled researchers to investigate what ancient people may have looked like and to trace patterns of ...

California's Channel Islands are home to 13,000-year-old human remains and ancient settlements that could rewrite the story ...

Ancient human remains discovered during building work at a property in Ancaster in 2025 have been laid to rest following an investigation that revealed they dated back to Roman times.

A new study led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward explains how low-oxygen burial conditions lead to human brain preservation for thousands of years.

IN CALLAO cave on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, history may be repeating itself. About 16 years ago, archaeologists working on the relatively nearby island of Flores discovered the remains ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has shaped modern human genomes far more than previously thought.

Nearly 5,000-year-old skeletons discovered at Rakhigarhi in Haryana, the largest known Harappan civilisation site, have been sent by the Archaeological Survey o ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.