Researchers on the hunt to settle a long-standing debate ended up rewriting the timeline of ancient human history in the process. For years, archaeologists have argued over an ancient culture with ...

The gallery takes visitors on an epic journey spanning the last seven million years. Starting in Africa with our early hominin relatives (who are more closely related to us than to chimpanzees), ...

The study of ancient DNA has greatly ... about 7,000 years. "This timeline closely matches the archaeological evidence for the overlap of Neandertals and modern humans in Europe.