In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

Bronze Age graves in Hungary show millet replaced meat, mobility dropped, inequality shrank, and diets changed.

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

For two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland's first documented royal house, who reigned ...

The hotel was a block away. At the museum, a tent had been set up in a courtyard, and a line of attendees snaked around it: artists, fashion people, writers, students, cool kids with their hair in ...

Learn about the Sámi people of the Sápmi region, spanning Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwest Russia, in this week's episode of "Lost Cultures: Living Legacies." ...

Scientists have extracted genetic information from 400 medieval burials that date between the eighth and eighteenth centuries ...

As of November 2021, American Indian and Alaska Native, Black, and Latino people all had suffered from higher rates of hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19 compared with White people.

A new analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are ...

The most famous gay lover of Roman Emperor Hadrian, Antinous was known for his physical attractiveness and intelligence. He ...