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Researchers have given medieval ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ residents the ‘Richard III treatment’ to reveal the hard-knock lives of those who lived in the city during the University's earliest years.

Research on neighbouring chimpanzee communities in the forests of West Africa suggests a warfare tactic not previously seen beyond humans is regularly used by our closest evolutionary relatives.

Digital modelling of legendary fossil’s soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles that allowed fully erect walking.  

Study of 2,500-year-old latrines from the biblical Kingdom of Judah shows the ancient faeces within contain Giardia – a parasite that can cause dysentery.

New research involving ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ University has found evidence — locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas — of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may have upturned the Bronze Age Indus Civilization.

A ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ scientist has played a leading role in sequencing Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome, revealing clues to the composer’s health and family history.

Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. Paying greater attention to hunter-gatherer childhoods may help economically developed countries improve education and wellbeing.

The Fitzwilliam's major new exhibition, the culmination of a three-year research project, explores the evolution of island identity on Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia from the Neolithic to the Romans

Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire, a new study argues.

¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ and BT have been working together for more than 25 years developing new technologies, exploring human behaviour and considering how those two things come together to shape our world.