Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

Archaeologists studying the crypts at Château des Milandes uncover first evidence of embalming practices in Early Modern ...

As Rabbi Berel Wein writes in his new book, "Eight People We Met on the Way Home," “against all odds and against all opinions ...

He’s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo-Saxon invasion of what would come to be called England. His ...

Likewise, new techniques for recovering ancient proteins from human dental plaque have shown no evidence of horse milk in the ...

Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe" (Penn Press, 2019) and "Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean" (Palgrave, 2018).

The English philosopher Francis Bacon, who’s credited with developing the scientific method, wrote in 1620 that the three ...

The Marathas' legacy in Bombay is one of profound yet understated influence. While the British ultimately emerged as the ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.