Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

Human history, as we know it, is a story molded by fragments. Each discovery adds a brushstroke to our understanding of who we are and where we come from. For decades, the narrative has been clear: ...

Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant ...

I n another blow to the image of Neanderthal as brutish troglodyte, we’ve identified the tools the ancient hominin used to ...

Such tools older than 50,000 years are exceedingly rare in the region. A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden tools ...

A new exhibition at Whanganui Regional Museum invites visitors to journey through time to explore the evolution of ancient ...

They turned natural materials into tools, medicines, and systems that quietly underpin much of today's technology and culture ...

In the hills of southwestern China, near the ancient shoreline of Fuxian Lake, a major archaeological discovery has reshaped how scientists understand the early use of tools. A collection of 35 wooden ...

The find, announced by researchers from the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw working alongside the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Archaeology, has been described as even more significant than ...

Ancient deserts still keep secrets, but today’s tools are finally fast enough to hear them. In Peru, a fusion of fieldwork and artificial intelligence is ...