Kristina Killgrove

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative with one-third the brain size of ours, buried and may have memorialized their dead, controversial research suggests.

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a clue.

We have smaller faces than Neanderthals and even chimps. A new study may explain how this came to be.

The bonobo Kanzi, who learned to make stone tools, play Minecraft and communicate at the level of a 2-year-old human, has died.

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

The discovery of two sets of iron ankle shackles at an ancient Egyptian gold mine reveals forced labor.

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

This small, carved dog epitomizes ancient Egyptians' love of pets.

A monumental tomb found near Corinth has revealed several burials, along with artifacts reflecting its later use as a healing shrine.

Genetic analysis of skeletons in a mass grave in Mongolia has revealed they were soldiers in the Han-Xiongnu Wars more than two millennia ago.

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

A Jewish ritual bath known as a mikvah discovered in Ostia Antica is more than 1,500 years old.

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

More than 800 years ago, a Russian boy named Onfim sketched himself on his schoolwork.

Our science journalists reported on the Stand Up for Science rallies held in New York City and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and human traits.

The skeleton of a Stone Age child discovered in Thailand is rewriting what experts know about the prehistory of the area.

The discovery of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools upends what we know about tool manufacturing in East Africa.

Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered the remains of a large timber circle that may be contemporaneous with England's Woodhenge and Stonehenge.

Archaeologists were surprised that the skeleton of a person wrapped in heavy chains was female.

These masks, known for their distortion and asymmetry, are one of the oldest kinds of art in southwest Alaska.

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.