The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's greener past. - Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza ...

The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable ...

Pleistocene humans were more than happy to get into bed with Neanderthals and Denisovans, which is why most of us now carry ...

In October 2015, scientists reconstructed the genome of a 4,500-year-old man who lived in Ethiopia. It was the first time that anyone had created a complete genetic snapshot of an African from an ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

One of the oldest and most important civilizations that has left the greatest mark on the evolution of human beings is the ...

A death mask from the third or second century bc found in the Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread ...

New research shows that hippos lived in central Europe tens of thousands of years longer than previously thought. Ancient DNA ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according ...