The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made temple — despite being over 10,000 years old.

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that may be the oldest evidence yet ... a rare look at how ancient human relatives were working with wood and ...

In this image, three wavelengths of light have been combined to highlight the Milky Way (purple) and cosmic microwave background (gray). ACT COLLABORATION; ESA/PLANCK COLLABORATION It’s hard to ...

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library’s exhibit, “Sacred Words: Revealing the Earliest Hebrew Book.” A medieval ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after ... dolphins and gorillas—finding evidence of ancestral population structures in some (but not all) of these groups.

Mungo Man is the oldest skeleton ever found in Australia at approximately 42 thousand years old — older than the pyramids in Egypt — and some of the earliest human remains discovered anywhere ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: When did human language as we know it ... "No other animal has a parallel structure in their communication system. And that gives us the ability ...

There isn't any reason to suggest that human intellect has been harmed, the publication counters — but in "both potential and execution," our intelligence is definitely on the downturn.

The remains, which are the oldest facial bones ... and underdeveloped nasal structure," explained María Martinón, director of the National Center for Research on Human Evolution and the study ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe. The team did so for ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe ... it became clear that Pink's face didn't have the same structure as any ancient human species from the area. Co-author Dr María ...