John Tinniswood, the world’s oldest man, has died at the age of 112. Tinniswood died on Monday at a care home in Southport, ...

Lucy was often described as "the grandmother of humanity", but more recent discoveries suggest she may have been more like an ...

THE world’s oldest man has died at the age of 112 “surrounded by music and love” just months after breaking the Guinness ...

This age means the footprints may have been left by Homo antecessor, an early human species known to be present in Europe at that time. Not only are the footprints the earliest evidence yet of humans ...

That date range makes Misliya-1 the oldest human fossils outside Africa as well as a contemporary of the humans found at Herto and Omo Kibish in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian fossils, however, like the ...

Eastern Africa's oldest human fossils are even more ancient than researchers thought, a new study suggests. Now, an international team of scientists determined that the fossils were buried beneath ...

The painting of a wild pig and three human-like figures is at least 51,200 years old, more than 5,000 years older than the previous oldest cave art. The discovery pushes back the time that modern ...

A court in Russia has ordered the country's oldest human rights organisation to be closed down. The Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) was founded in 1976 and reports annually on the human rights ...

Damascus, SANA – Syria has always known as the cradle of ancient great civilizations and home to the oldest human settlements in the world, a fact that has been demonstrated by archaeological ...