Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: What is now thought to be the oldest evidence for mummification has surfaced in Vietnam. Though a scorched arm bone is all that remains of this ...

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ago.

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. By Carl Zimmer A new study describes ...

Aug 6 (Reuters) - When researchers excavated fossilized fragments of a rod-shaped bone 3-1/2 inches (88 mm) long at a site called Mata Menge on Indonesia's Flores island, the pieces initially were ...

Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the National Geographic Society, and Google Arts and Culture. Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh receives funding from the Australian ...

Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...