The discovery of a Neanderthal named Thorin reveals a previously unknown lineage that diverged from other Neanderthals ...

A long-running argument between archaeologists and geneticists has finally been settled - and the answer could help explain ...

Neanderthal remains recovered from a cave in France have been named 'Thorin' after a character from J.R.R. Tolkien's book The ...

The child-friendly stage production of Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit – which recently won a Naledi award for Best ...

When he puts it on, the world around him becomes darker and shadowy, but it helps him get his job done as the burglar in Thorin Oakenshield's (Richard Armitage) company. Decades later, in The Lord of ...

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: in Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 ...

When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was immediately ...

Some chapters of human history are more poignant to revisit than others.The Battle of Waterloo ended a 23-year ...

A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of history's great mysteries—what killed off the Neanderthals?