Alongside a significant haul of ancient artifacts in Athens, Greece, police uncovered a jar containing a preserved human ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...

Southeast Asian people mummified their died by smoke-drying them, creating 14,000-year-old mummies that are twice as old as ...

"smoked mummies" were found in Southeast Asia, rewriting the origins of mummification and revealing a cultural tradition.

Ancient animal bones from Spain’s Malia shelter reveal repeated visits by early humans between 36,200 and 26,260 years ago.

Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...

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