Did the early Australians really tread the continent 65,000 years ago, or does their genetic history tell a different story? The intersection of ancient DNA and archaeology is reshaping this ...

More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the first agricultural civilizations or even the arrival of Homo sapiens ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.