In July, "Turkana Boy" was showcased in Paris as part of Kenya's new tourism slogan: "Welcome Home." Discovered in 1984, ...

It is reasonable to deduce that in the successive phases of prehistory, humans, in their effort to create a warmer environment, used animal skins to cover the floors of the caves and huts they ...

Notable finds include “Mrs. Ples,” a well-preserved Australopithecus skull, and the nearly complete 3.6-million-year-old skeleton known as “Little Foot.” In fact, over a third of the world’s early ...

The earliest members of the hominid lineage probably had a lightly pigmented integument covered with dark or black hair—similar to that of the modern chimpanzee. The evolution of a more-darkly ...

And buried beneath that edifice, archaeologists recently discovered, is a tomb with at least 12 human skeletons and artifacts that are estimated to be at least 2,000 years old. Archaeologists led ...

GRANTSVILLE, Utah — After a bit of a skeleton decoration scandal in Grantsville last year, the city has taken it upon itself to embrace Halloween decorations this year. The city asked businesses ...

Fifty “exceptionally well-preserved” Viking skeletons have been unearthed in Denmark by archaeologists from the Museum Odense, west of Copenhagen, along with five cremated graves.

“This is such an exciting find because we found these skeletons that are so very, very well preserved,” said archaeologist Michael Borre Lundø, who led the six-month dig ...

“This is such an exciting find because we found these skeletons that are so very, very well preserved,” said archeologist Michael Borre Lundø, who led the six-month dig. “Normally, we would ...