The skull of a Viking-era man who had part of his skull cut out in the world’s oldest surgical procedure has been unearthed.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

The man's skull revealed a large hole in his skull, indicating he may have undergone trepanation to treat migraines or ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have debated the geographical origin and spread of the treponemal diseases — syphilis, bejel, yaws and pinta, all of ...

If true, this would make The Prince fossil the oldest known example of a modern human killed by a wild animal, and possibly ...

Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, Researcher at the University of Reading, about the significance of the Schöningen ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing trees, but whether it used them for that purpose is still unknown.

Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia reveals the oldest genome of "Treponema pallidum" yet, sharpening ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...