The Barabar Caves in Bihar are the oldest caves in India. Learn its history and features, and explore other ancient caves ...

The world is filled with the remnants of the past, and one of the oldest structures made by humans on the planet is in Greece. The Theopetra Cave in central Greece harbored a stone wall which was ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

1881 Adderly Street, in Cape Town, gets its first electric lights installed.

Researchers found over 200 cultural artifacts within nests of bearded vultures, with the oldest item to date — a woven sandal ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — After a newspaper reported in 1897 that the great American writer Mark Twain had died, a bemused -- but very much alive -- Twain famously quipped: "the report of my death ...