Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

An ancient skull is baffling scientists because it looks unlike any known human ancestor. The mystery 300,000-year-old skull of a child about 12 or 13 years old was first uncovered in Hualongdong ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.

What the ancient Romans wore may not be among the most pressing questions ... The most common type of Roman head covering was ...

Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today.

The skull, found in China in 2019, looks like an ancient modern human but has the chin of a Denisovan. It could rewrite the story of how our species evolved.

In a skull marred with bone damage from multiple tumors, archaeologists have found never-before-seen evidence from ancient Egypt of surgical intervention for cancer.