Grave robbing scarred Miami's past. Now, new digs raise fresh questions about what to do with human remains.

Could this be proof of an early burial culture? (John Hawks/World History Encyclopedia) An entire ancient human species, Homo ...

On the outskirts west of Jerusalem, a burial chamber was disturbed long before scientists reached it, its contents partly ...

A red dot on a cave wall in Portugal does not look like much. It’s a small mark, crusted over by minerals, easy to miss ...

Meet the Bad Dürrenberg shaman and how lavish grave goods help us paint a picture of shamanistic practices of the Middle ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening ...

Scientists have identified the oldest known human remains in Northern Britain as a young girl who lived around 11,000 years ago. Found in a Cumbrian cave and nicknamed the “Ossick Lass,” she was ...

Located on the outskirts of the town of Fureidis in northern Israel, the cave was in the way of upcoming construction projects until archaeologists intervened. Researchers Dated the Cave to 400,000 ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a prehistoric cave dating back up to 400,000 years, revealing evidence of complex ...