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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists’ previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The oldest known Black cemetery in Austin is on its way to landmark status. Nonprofit Preservation Austin announced Thursday that the Historic Landmark Commission recommended ...