Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Does the recent digital reconstruction of a Mycenaean woman really depict her accurately, or is it more fantasy than fact?

We are building a museum near Shanidar Cave to preserve all the archaeological pieces found there. If the museum is completed by year’s end, Shanidar Z will be placed there," said Soran Amir, head of ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Stone Age humans used a form of "prehistoric sunscreen" more than 40,000 years ago that may have helped them survive whilst ...