When we read about the lives of people from the ancient past, we naturally want to know what they looked like.

Edmond Johnson, the last fluent speaker of an ancient Native American language, has died at age 95. The Caddo Nation of ...

By the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 3000 to 800 BCE), elk had become stylized symbols—possibly representing status, clan ...

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house: ...

A study of genomes from ancient Siberian people shows genetic linkages with people living in Estonia, Finland and Hungary today.

Claims that a small-brained hominin called Homo naledi buried its dead raise intriguing questions about ancient minds and why ...

So Dr. Fu decided to look once more for DNA, this time in the plaque on the Harbin skull’s teeth. As plaque builds up, it traps bacteria and, sometimes, also a few cells from the mouth.

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the ...

And more recent research suggests beer was accidentally discovered as early as 10,000 B.C.E., or over 12,000 years ago by the ...

Modern workouts often include music—but did you know the ancient Greeks and Romans also used rhythm to boost performance long ...

Ancient DNA traces the Huns' journey from Mongolia to Europe. But this wasn't straightforward.