The discovery of 'sacrificed' teenagers from 4,800 years ago in the royal tombs of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization ...

Adichie's fresh voice is already classic, timelessly communicating how a woman’s pain is her unsurpassed strength.

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

Supporting her son’s newfound success has meant sacrifices. Noreen has spent years ferrying Owen to drama classes in Didsbury, Manchester, an hour away from home. The Coopers aren't an acting ...

Very little is truly known of the ancient Celts who left no written records. The names of many of the gods worshipped by them are known through Latin or Gallo-Latin inscriptions made in late pre ...

Set against the backdrop of cricket but focusing on... In a suspected case of human sacrifice, a man murdered a five-year-old girl by slitting her throat and offered her blood on the steps of a ...

AWKA – Traditional worshippers in Anambra State, under the umbrella of the Nzuko Odinani Welfare Association (NOWA), have called on the state government to reinstate water sacrifices ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

Even so, he was still around two months short of the record for the longest ever spaceflight by a human – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days onboard the Mir Space Station in the ...