Human remains have been increasingly studied using interdisciplinary approaches. These have enabled researchers to investigate what ancient people may have looked like and to trace patterns of ...

California's Channel Islands are home to 13,000-year-old human remains and ancient settlements that could rewrite the story ...

Native American tribal leaders with ancestral ties to the region will conduct a reburial ceremony for ancient human remains found near Dolores on the San Juan National Forest, officials say. Erosion ...

Ancient human remains discovered during building work at a property in Ancaster in 2025 have been laid to rest following an investigation that revealed they dated back to Roman times.

Scientists at the world’s only mummy research institute are combing crypts and caverns for ancient remains—and using new tools to gather fresh insight about how our ancestors once lived. Unlike their ...

A new study led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward explains how low-oxygen burial conditions lead to human brain preservation for thousands of years.

IN CALLAO cave on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, history may be repeating itself. About 16 years ago, archaeologists working on the relatively nearby island of Flores discovered the remains ...

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.