NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

Ancient DNA, archaeology, linguistics, and historical evidence are combined to explore the possibility that all living humans descend from three ancient African hunter-gatherer populations that mixed ...

For modern residents of the Levant, the "Red Sea Trough" usually brings a brief, dusty transition between seasons. But ...

Human evolution is a fiddly business, and few fossils encapsulate that more than two skulls unearthed in Hubei Province, ...

Glacier ice contains valuable information about the climates of the past. Researchers are scrambling to study it before it's too late.

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.