Narrow, worn stairs beneath the 11th-century Pembroke Castle in Wales lead into a shadowy cavern where early humans once ...

"We can begin to reconstruct not only how tools were made, but also how technological knowledge moved between regions and how it changed along the way,” said Dr. Gadi Herzlinger ...

The other ring found with the same skeletal remains is a plain gold ring without any pattern. Experts believe the rings' ...

Observations with the Euclid Space Telescope and ground-based facilities, including the Subaru Telescope, have led to the ...

Could modern technology help solve the 2,600-year-old mystery of the Lost Ark of the Covenant? Archeologist Chris McKinny ...

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

Learn more about the ancient boat carvings from Iberia and Scandinavia, which suggest Bronze Age Europeans may have shared ...

A new ancient DNA study published in Science Advances provides evidence that political power among Scythian elites may have been inherited through family lineages that extended across multiple burial ...

From a cheeky slingshot to Paul's letters and information on King Nebuchadnezzar, new research is offering insight into some ...

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey ...

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has revealed traces of a possible new stone or timber circle at the site, a rich ...

Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and ...