A chopping wound above the eye and more carnage solve a mystery that stumped archeologists for a century.

A new systematic review synthesizes decades of research showing that fire transforms human bone in predictable ways, ...

Over 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by ...

The exhibit of "Bodies: The Science Within" at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium runs from now until Nov. 29 and includes Spanish translations.

A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.

Vast landscapes often hide secrets that remain untouched for centuries. Every now and then, a single unexpected discovery ...

A reanalysis of 46 skulls from royal burials at Abydos found potentially fatal head injuries in 18, supporting a century-old sacrifice theory.

Houston police are awaiting autopsy results on skeletal remains found at 3500 Blalock Road about 2:45 p.m. on October 2. The identity, gender and cause of death of the individual ...

A skeleton, a moth and a coral reef might not sound like the beginning of a fashion collection — but at the Brooklyn Museum, ...

A decade after 79 shackled skeletons captured global attention, science is rewriting the story of ancient Phaleron. But the ...

Ractigen Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering RNA activation (RNAa) therapeutics, today presented positive first-in-human clinical data from its ongoing Phase I trial of RAG ...

Reinvestigation of mass burial sites around royal tombs finds evidence of fatal blunt force trauma on skulls ...