Romania is making strides in the archaeological world after new evidence confirmed the presence of ancient hominins in the country dating back two million years. The discovery was made at the Valea ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe ... to disappear from the archaeological record. Over this 7,000-year time frame, early ...

The discovery that the Ushikawa fossils are not human means the oldest human fossils found on the Japanese mainland are from a limestone quarry near the Japanese city of Hamakita, about 25 miles ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan ... (781,000 to 126,000 years ago) and recorded as such in textbooks on the history ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

The Smithsonian human origins program leader who led research ... part of an Oldowan tool kit, the oldest recorded stone utility on record, hold clues about the people who lived in the region ...

A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after leaving her walker on the ground and making a tandem jump in northern Illinois. “Age is just a ...