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Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central ...

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...

Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

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