The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

Heathrow Airport was temporarily closed on Friday after a fire at North Hyde Electricity Substation in Hayes, west London, ...

The French government has announced it will supply households across the country with survival manuals in a move mirroring ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

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

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

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