When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

The Heritage Commission Wednesday announced the most recent archaeological discoveries made in the north of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, revealing evidence of early human migrations from Africa to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

Archaeologists working at the Orozmani site in Georgia said they found a 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone. The jawbone, found alongside stone tools and animal fossils, is one of the oldest human ...

Footprints found in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging everything we thought we knew about the first humans in North ...

A newly reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is offering rare insight into the earliest migrations of ancient human ancestors — and a Southern Connecticut State University ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists’ previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more. An ...

Ancient footprints challenge the timeline of human arrival in North America, suggesting people were here much earlier than once believed.

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and Europe, new research of this largely unexplored region reveals. The findings, ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...