Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. The decade-long ...

Across archaeology and earth science, new discoveries are stacking up and they do not fit the clean textbook timeline of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...