A tiny community of what is today northern Italy had long before hospitals or written records to ask a question which so far ...

A new analysis of “il Principe,” an ancient, decorated skeleton found in northwest Italy, confirms that the child died up to ...

The mystery of a Stone Age teenager's death has been solved — 80 years after he was found in an ancient burial ground in ...

The research team revisited the remains of the richly buried adolescent from Arene Candide Cave in Liguria, northwest Italy, using detailed surface inspection and microscopic assessment of healing.

High-altitude mountain passes were not the kind of place to sleep out in the open during the Ice Age, and Neanderthals couldn ...

Russian scientists discovered the full carcass of a now-extinct species of bear earlier this month, its snout locked in a snarl after millennia in the frozen ground. “It is completely preserved, with ...

Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was ...