Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion decorated the corridor wall outside of a theater.

For over a century, strange machining marks on Egyptian stone have defied explanation, showing levels of precision beyond even modern tools. Some researchers now connect this evidence to a dooms day ...

New discoveries from Denisova Cave include ancient DNA extracted from sediments and sophisticated jewelry dated to around ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Archaeologists in Tamil Nadu have unearthed an 8ft iron spear, the longest from India's Iron Age, from Thirumalapuram. Found ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of ...

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...