WASHINGTON (voa) – An international team of scientists led by French anthropologists has unearthed the oldest skull ever found in the human family, a seven-million-year-old fossil in the central ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

A rchaeologists digging at a Mesoamerican site in Mexico have discovered an unusual, cube-shaped human skull. It is the first ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they understood about our origins. The fossil, named Yunxian 2, was extracted from ...

These ancient tribes were bad to the bone. Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton masks among a repository of ...