Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

There are records of whole human groups disappearing mysteriously from parts of northwest Europe, particularly what is now ...

As the cave was over 100 kilometres from the coast when the pendant was made 15,000 years ago, it suggests that ancient ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity on a humble field in Barnham in the U.K. county of Suffolk. According to Chris Stringer of ...

While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured ...