Archaeologists in Thailand uncovered two 2,000-year-old gold rings alongside human remains at an ancient Iron Age burial site.

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of a disease that has long carried both medical and cultural weight. Their ...

Scientists used tooth proteins to investigate Homo naledi fossils and found a surprising absence of male markers in a South ...

Scientists have recently developed a groundbreaking pregnancy test that can detect pregnancy in skeletons buried approximately 1,000 years ago. This innovative method leverages a newly discovered ...

Twelve skeletons have been found in a large, 2,000-year-old tomb directly in front of the Khazneh ("Treasury") in the city of Petra in Jordan. Alongside them, excavators have discovered grave goods ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient skeletons beneath a school site in France — all buried in an unusual seated position. The discovery was announced by Inrap, France's national institution for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inhumation grave 26, shown in the original field photograph (left), with bones in anatomical articulation lying on their right ...

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