A child, hiker, or canoeist who picks up a single arrowhead is far more likely to encounter a teachable moment than criminal ...

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

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

A smudge of blue on an ordinary-looking stone has forced archaeologists to rethink what Ice Age people in Europe could see, ...

Still, the “board game” framing has a quiet strength: it’s testable. Scholars can compare wear patterns, spatial logic, and symbol clustering against known game-board behaviors, rather than betting ...

When discussing Liangzhu's significance, Chinese archaeologists have provided China's answer to the question of defining ...

A nearly intact 2,000-year-old Celtic war trumpet has been discovered in Norfolk, a unique find from the ancient world.

Found in an elite military hoard, this "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery challenges what we know about Iron Age warfare.

A 3,300-year-old mask found in Bahrain reveals new details about the ancient Dilmun civilization’s burial customs.

The box was excavated from a Roman-era grave in England. It was found among a trove of artifacts spanning roughly 8,000 years ...