Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

The admonition that we must remember the past to avoid repeating it has always struck me as strange. If human history teaches ...

Millions of people from the poor world are trying to cross seas, forests, valleys and rivers, in search of safety, work and ...

Ancient DNA has revealed new insights into how sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years.

New fossil evidence from Romania suggests hominins reached Eurasia 200,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping human ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fueled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk. As early as 8,000 years ...

The Lunar New Year usually starts sometime between late January and mid-February. This year, the festivities begin on ...

The journey of human ancestors from Africa to other parts of the world has long fascinated scientists. Recent evidence from Romania suggests this migration began earlier than previously believed.

The pieces in this collection are about a wide variety of subjects, yet there is one thread that runs through most of them: ...