Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their ...

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools ...

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century ... a forerunner of the modern Aberdeen University. When MacGillivray died in 1852 ...

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.

Casteen is credited with growing the University’s endowment from $488 million to $5.1 billion to insulate the institution from significant state budget cuts in the early 1990s ... Casteen “the father ...

Photo from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt Under a grassy field in southeastern Europe sat some mysterious ... trade routes to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey).” ...

During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern ... University of Cambridge challenges that idea, revealing a far more complex and surprising origin story for early ...