Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and Europe, new research of this largely unexplored region reveals. The findings, ...

Early Europe sounds quiet until you realize how many footsteps once crossed its frozen plains. New DNA findings show that modern humans reached the continent nearly 45,000 years ago, long before the ...

Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkiye and Europe, new landmark research of this largely unexplored region reveals. The ...

A Bulgarian cave's 45,000-year-old human remains have rewritten our understanding of early European settlement. Genomic ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the ...

Over the past two years, breakthroughs in ancient genomics and archaeology have revolutionized the story of the first humans in Europe — who are thought to have appeared some 45,000 years ago — and ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...