A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

Scientists discover a tiny ancient reptile, Captorhinus aguti, that may explain how rib breathing evolved and how humans ...

At first glance, Gunung Padang looked like a strange terraced hill in West Java. But deeper investigation suggested something much more extreme: a massive man-made structure with multiple buried ...

WASHINGTON - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial ...

Travel back in time with Stacker through some of the most impressive archeological discoveries in the world, according to ...

Rising seas erased this prehistoric human world from history—until ocean dredgers recently discovered it.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." During the glacial period that chilled the Earth 140,000 years ago, sea levels in the Indonesian region ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and ...

The Goths were a multi-ethnic society, according to a study of DNA from Gothic graves. The people buried there had ancestry from places as far afield as Scandinavia, modern-day Turkey and North Africa ...

BUFFALO — A Java Center man has been charged with child pornography possession in a case which originally began in 2022. State police alerted the FBI on Jan. 2 that they were investigating 43-year-old ...

JAKARTA – A skullcap, molar and femur believed to be remains of Homo erectus, or “Java Man,” unearthed by Dutch geologist Eugene Dubois in Java in the 19th century, are on display at the National ...