In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

The perfectly preserved remains of a hiker who vanished nearly three decades ago have been discovered frozen inside a glacier ...

The ‘witch hat’-wearing mummies have long caused debate among historians. Could they suggest Europeans reached Asia earlier than we thought?

Remarkably well-preserved remains of a 1,000-year-old individual from a cave in central Mexico provided researchers with an ...

Talking about death with your parents is a conversation everyone dreads, but my mum Patsy wanted that chat with me – and learning what she wants to happen to her body after she's gone came as a shock.

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Scientists have discovered a coral mechanism that could help engineers design robots able to adjust their strength and ...

“There are so many amazing ‘firsts’ preserved in these duck-billed mummies — the earliest hooves documented in a land ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

A decomposed body of a man was found wrapped in brown tape and sealed inside a plastic bag near the Hindon canal in east Delhi’s Ghazipur area, an official said on Sunday. Police received information ...

Police received information about a suspicious object lying near a dry corner of the Hindon canal, opposite Mulla Colony, on ...

Nearly two decades after the remains of a person known as “The Woman in the Well” were found, Canadian authorities announced the remains belonged to a woman named Alice Spence. Her listing in a 1916 ...