National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is a man on a mission: Travel across the world in the way the earliest humans out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It turns out that the Zeravshan Valley, known primarily as a Silk Road route in the Middle Ages, was a key route for human ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analyzing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea is ...

On the seabed off the coast of Taiwan, a fisherman’s dredge pulled up more than just marine life. Among the animal remains was something unexpected—a thick, heavy jawbone. For years, the fossil ...

Archaeology 500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in Scotland — and it likely held a fake tooth Vikings 'The detectors never stopped beeping!' Nearly 3,000 coins ...

On April 27, researchers announced multiple breakthroughs spanning genetics, archaeology, and early human migration. A Harvard-led team analyzed nearly 16,000 ancient genomes, uncovering 479 gene ...

A newly unearthed archaeological site in Tajikistan dating to as far as 150,000 years ago played a key role in the migration and development of early humans and their ancestors to Central Asia, ...