See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Throughout the course of human history, cultures around the world have ...

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male ...

Editorial: Thanks to new technology we are are acquiring insights into earlier times, and realising how little we truly know ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have unearthed a 9,000-year-old campsite that may have ...

Eighty-six tortoise shells, an eagle’s wing, and the pelvis of a leopard are some of the bizarre objects placed under, around, or on the body of a petite woman, likely a shaman, buried 12,000 years ...

A newfound prehistoric population in Siberia reveals early humans undertook extensive migrations, a new study says. Photo from the University of Tübingen The genetic makeup of a newfound ...

The newest film from the executive producers of "Searching for Sugar Man" and "Imposter" is another unexpected mystery. In Raz Degan’s new documentary, “The Last Shaman,” the expansive world ...