The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Hidden beneath Malta, the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is a 6,000-year-old underground labyrinth that may have served as a temple.

More than 7,000 years ago, the Vardar-Morava River corridor led early farmers from the far reaches of modern-day Serbia into ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...

Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said Wednesday.

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos ... At the time the tools were made, ...

So I want the skulls to be buried on their land and not kept anywhere else. Almost 150 years ago sacred objects, including human remains, were collected from villages in Papua New Guinea for ...

Colourful ceremonies featuring song and dance, petal-strewn pathways and the roasting of specially-selected pigs accompanied the emotional repatriation of 16 human skulls to Papua New Guinea last ...

But no one ever mentioned the skulls. "My ancestors didn't tell me anything about it. Maybe they were frightened," he told 7.30. Mr Tui can sit under a tree and look at the stone monument erected ...

Among the ruins of ancient cities scattered across northeastern Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a grisly yet fascinating relic of the past: severed human skulls, pierced with iron nails ...

Many of these human bones found dated back to roughly 500 - 900 CE with some exhibiting signs of deliberate skull shape modification. “This was definitely a cool experience after learning about ...