From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives Ancient DNA extracted from two women who died in what is now Libya around 7,000 years ago is now helping researchers to ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

The jawbone fragment was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait.

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

Researchers identified them as humanoids, orcas with knives ... human-focused geoglyphs were “within viewing distance … of ancient trails that crisscross the Nazca Pampa (desert).” ...