More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

Recent archaeological discoveries have challenged our understanding of ancient history, revealing structures that predate modern humans. These findings, unearthed by teams of dedicated archaeologists, ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

A million-year-old skull discovered in China could rewrite the history of human evolution. A new analysis of the skull published in Science suggests that our species may have emerged half a million ...

Four months after a multi-national conference in San Francisco drafted its charter, the United Nations officially began on ...

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of our species. The illustrator Nikkolas Smith, surrounded by his original ...