Beheaded by colonizers, buried by descendants: France finally returns skull of Malagasy King Toera
A symbol of brutal colonialism comes home after more than a century.
Europe just got its first look at the world’s oldest human ancestor
The legendary Lucy and Selam fossils are stunning crowds in Prague for only 60 days.
Farmers were digging potatoes - then they found a 3,000-year-old bronze treasure
16 kilograms of ancient metal - offered to the gods or hidden from enemies?
Lost for over 150 years: the forgotten will that sparked a Shakespearean legal battle
A historic legal twist buried in the archives finally comes to light.
Elite roman tomb found after 2,000 years - could it reveal the identity of a forgotten power player
The grave may belong to someone close to Emperor Augustus, and it still holds its secrets.
Meet the dinosaur named after a sailing legend - it had a sail of its own
A new Isle of Wight species honors Dame Ellen MacArthur, sporting spine sails possibly evolved for love, not heat.
Ancient interbreeding secret: why Indigenous Americans carry a disease-fighting Denisovan gene
One in three people of mexican ancestry carries the variant, which reached modern humans via neanderthals.
