People living in the earliest known settlement in the Americas relied partly on seaweed, bolstering the theory that the New World was settled via a coastal route, a new study says.
Remains exhumed last year belong to two children of Tsar Nicholas II, may put to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, an official said.
Scientists have found genetic evidence that Crusaders contributed DNA to the Christian population of Lebanon, while the expansion of Islam left traces in the country's Muslim groups.
Humans crossed the Bering land bridge 22,000 years ago but couldn't escape ice there for thousands of years, according to a combined genetic and archaeological analysis.
Thousands of human bones have been discovered on the Pacific island, some of which are ancient and indicate inhabitants of particularly small stature, scientists have announced.
Scientists can determine where you've lived by studying your hair, which holds the unique chemical signature of the water you've been drinking, a new study has found.
European-Americans are less genetically diverse and have more potentially harmful genetic variations than African-American populations, according to a new study.
Head lice picked from thousand-year-old Peruvian mummies suggest the pesky parasites accompanied modern humans on their first migration out of Africa, a new study says.
Some of Egypt's greatest treasures have ended up in foreign countries, including the Rosetta Stone, which unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Now Egypt wants the artifact back—if only for a visit.
Polynesians and Micronesians show little genetic relation to other South Pacific islanders, suggesting the two groups hail from island-hopping East Asians.
