When a team of archaeologists followed an ancient trail marked by stone cairns to the top of a mountain in Norway, they weren ...

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Traditionally, checking for damage was a manual job, but a combination of diagnostic technologies used in the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel offers much greater precision ...

In the streets of Anyama, children play and braziers smoke on corners. There is little to show that the ground of this everyday Ivory Coast neighbourhood conceals seminal prehistoric treasures.

"The Tibetan Plateau was previously thought to be uninhabitable during the last glacial maximum," said Li. Evidence found in the region shows that humans lived on the Tibetan Plateau before and after ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

The fragments uncovered were clearly produced by human hands using the distinctive techniques of the Clovis people.

The discovery shines further light on the pivotal role played by the Maghreb in shaping societies along Africa's ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

On the Isle of Skye in Scotland, researchers extracted fossils from a cliff, revealing a 166-million-year-old ornithopod ...