Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

Archaeologists in northern Spain uncover a rare late Iron Age complex, revealing ritual life at La Peña del Castro before ...

The president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have ...

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

A faded hand stencil discovered in an Indonesian cave may be the oldest known rock art, dating back at least 67,800 years.

Researchers dated the ship by conducting tree-ring analysis, which showed it was built with timber from Pomerania, in ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

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

Graffiti, produced by an inmate of an ancient Roman prison in Corinth, Greece, contained a chilling message for captors.