The past has never been more visible. While ancient ruins crumble under the weight of time, weather, and human activity, a ...

Finding 9,000-year-old organic remains in eastern Norway is extraordinarily rare due to acidic soil conditions that typically destroy such materials quickly. The exceptional preservation at Horten has ...

Across Egypt and beyond stone surfaces reveal machining marks so precise they raise questions about what tools ancient ...

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 ...

Assorted tools found in at a site in Nyayanga, Kenya. (E.M Finestone, J.S. Oliver via SWNS) In an earlier paper, the research team suggested that the bones represent the oldest known evidence of ...

Researchers have developed a novel application of histological staining to screen for ancient proteins in situ—within the ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who ...

A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become North America's ...