More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning “large head people”—they’ve recently been introduced to science under the ...

The ancient skeleton is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. The virtually complete Australopithecus fossil "Little Foot" is displayed at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...