Ancient hunter-gatherer genes may hold the secret to living past 100, according to a new study of Italian centenarians and their DNA.

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely ...

Ancient DNA explains why some people live to be over 100 years - Hunter-gatherer genes likely favoured during the last Ice ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before Greek settlement.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

Long before farming societies emerged in North America, hunter-gatherers along the Ouachita River constructed one of the continent’s oldest mound complexes. Watson Brake consists of eleven earthen ...

A monumental wall and 60 monoliths discovered underwater off Sein Island challenge established timelines of human ingenuity.

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Photo collections personalize emotional and historical narratives. They represent an almost instinctive desire to gather the ...

Columbia museum, which has a renowned collected of Southern folk art and artifacts, will close ahead of renovations to retool ...

This story is a collaboration between AFP and HaRDstories, with support from the Pulitzer Center. Pa Bon, Thailand — Deep in a Thai forest a young man sprints through the undergrowth, blowpipe in hand ...

Most people are biased to negatively judge people with facial anomalies. How does popular cinema reinforce this psychological effect?