Fragments of two ancient stone axes found in China could display some of the world's earliest primitive writing, Chinese archaeologists say. The markings on the axes, unearthed near Shanghai, could ...

Scanning the desert landscape of southern Egypt, archaeologists kept their eyes peeled for any rocks that looked shaped, chipped or tampered with in some way. They were searching for traces of ...

"The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet in an exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany. Since ancient times, people working in the fields occasionally stumbled over strange-looking ...

Archaeologists are stunned after discovering a more than 3,000-year-old axe in Indonesia that shows signs of extraterrestrial origin. Believed to be a Bronze Age relic, the conical axe was forged from ...