High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...

The oldest known lock and key system dates back to around 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia. Crafted from wood and surprisingly ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...

Scientists have discovered what they say is the earliest known rock art, in a cave in Indonesia. They say the image dates to more than 67,000 years ago.

Did you know that the world’s oldest Gold treasure was not discovered in some pirate’s loot, instead it was found buried in a grave!It is quite a fant.

The Bhimbetka site, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, captures the continuous presence of human life from the Lower Palaeolithic Age, roughly 100,000 years ago, to the Medieval period.

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind ...

Two unassuming pieces of wood recovered from a prehistoric lakeshore in southern Greece have become a headline-grabbing rarity - the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to around 430,000 years ...