It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair takes over the Park Avenue Armory for the 65th edition of the beloved fair.

Some of the best cartoons from the 1990s are slowly fading into obscurity, from Cow and Chicken to CatDog. Which ones are ...

A 3-year-old girl in Israel found an ancient Canaanite amulet shaped like a scarab while she was out walking with her family.

A toddler unearthed an ancient treasure dating back to the Middle Bronze Age during a trip to the archaeological site Tel ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

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In one of the finest moments in Jerry Rees’s animated film The Brave Little Toaster (1987), a young man bound for college ...

Archaeologists from Durham University made an astonishing discovery of a massive cache of 2,000-year-old artifacts belonging ...

Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first, he thought the circular object—found lying on the ground near a construction pit—might be a ...