Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

Though the majority of blonde-haired people today come from Europe, the unique hair colour originated in a land that is a ...

A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.

Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.

During the Magdalenian period (23,000 to 11,000 years ago) in Europe, the area was characterized by an increase in human populations, the researchers wrote in the study.

Credit: Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social Human remains discovered in a cave in Poland have revealed that ancient ... European prehistory, and came from at least 10 ...

Today, about half the world speaks an Indo-European language. Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language.

Now, researchers believe there was another eruption that would have changed life as they knew it for the ancient people of northern Europe in 2900 B.C., and the people of what is now Denmark ...