Java Man, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, has returned to Indonesia after over a century in the Netherlands. This ...

The parts of the skeleton – a skull cap, molar and thigh bone – were the first known specimens of Homo erectus ...

The Netherlands pledged on Friday to return to Indonesia the remains of "Java Man", the first-ever "Homo Erectus" unearthed by modern scientists in a landmark discovery for human evolution. The Barron ...

The Ministry of Culture is one of the new ministries established in the administration of President Prabowo Subianto. The ...

I’m a big fan of photography. I’ve been doing it for years, and I know my way around a camera. But I can’t even count how many times, mostly when I was younger, a random man—always a man—stopped me ...

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A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Indonesia, Marc Gerritsen, hands over a molar, a femur, and a skullcap of Homo erectus to Indonesian Minister of Culture Fadli ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...