Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone ...

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

Archeologists have discovered at least six hoards of ancient artifacts on top of a volcanic hilltop. Finds at the site ...

Human presence in high-altitude open areas during the Ice Age is not just a possibility, but a reality, Marta Sánchez de la ...

The mystery of the Parthenon’s lighting system, and how ancient Greeks illuminated the statue of Athena, is finally solved in ...

Mezmaiskaya Cave, an area of more than 5,000 square feet, has been excavated since 1987, and the lower layers of sediment date to more than 70,000 years ago, according to a study published April 14 in ...

The first smiths worked with copper and gold. Only when tin came to be added routinely to copper to make bronze did metal ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

“This national estimate is a historic step in Nepal’s conservation journey. It not only provides us with a clearer picture of ...

The oldest evidence of psychoactive plant use was found in the Andes, revealing how societies used mind-altering drugs to ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "treasure trove" of ancient Bronze and Iron Age artifacts which recontexualize the role the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient snuff tubes in the Andes, revealing how "drugs" reinforced social hierarchies in the ...