Genetic genealogy helped detectives determine that the remains are of Roxanne Leadbeater, who went missing in 1972.

Archaeologists have uncovered the skeleton of a warrior in northern Italy from the 6th century who after having his hand ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

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Some social media posts said the bones were discovered in North America, while others suggested a North African locale.

The Montana State Medical Examiner's Office has identified human remains found at Buffalo Bridge on February 4, as 54-year-old Danette Tenas from Ronan. Tenas was reported missing from the Buffalo ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

These bloody words were written by 19th-Century antiquarian H.S. Cuming in On the discovery of Celtic crania in the vicinity ...

The continent's oldest independent country is Ethiopia, which apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, has ...

Egyptian artifacts, dinosaur fossils and taxidermy mounts headline eccentric items at SkullStore Oddity Shop and Prehistoria ...