At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...
A new analysis of mineral grains has refuted the "glacial transport theory" that suggests Stonehenge's bluestones and Altar ...
The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...
The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...
A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...
Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.
Archaeologists found a 300 ton shipwreck that is the largest vessel of its kind ever found in the Baltic region.
The discovery of a prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone in southern England is rewriting what we thought we knew about ...
The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...
New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...
"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...
Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...