We Homo sapiens possess surprisingly few functional genes that distinguish us from extinct human lineages such as ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

48,000 years ago, Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals when they left Africa, before going on to the wider world, ...

In spring 1495, the Italian campaign of Charles VIII of France was interrupted by an intense outbreak of an apparently ...

The excavation took place at the Bahra 1 site in Kuwait, a focal point for archaeological investigations into what life was like in Stone Age Arabia. The unearthing of these objects gives experts new ...