Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a ...

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and ...

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...

WASHINGTON: A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 — crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in ...

Dozens of rare, gold-glazed terracotta ornaments have been uncovered at the Ho Dynasty Citadel World Heritage site in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, in a discovery that researchers say helps pinpoint where the ...

I started digging for Native American artifacts on my Florida property, expecting flakes, tools, maybe pottery. Then we pulled up something big a massive bone that looked ancient. At first it seemed ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

A Missouri researcher says he discovered a massive Ice Age mammoth femur in a northwest Missouri waterway and is raising money to preserve and study the ancient bone.

Researchers have discovered signs of a Paleolithic writing precursor in ancient tools and sculptures dating back 40,000 years ...

At several archaeological sites in southern Africa, hundreds of highly unusual fragments of ostrich eggs have been found.

In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...

South Park City Museum in Fairplay proves that history becomes infinitely more interesting when you can actually walk through ...