Found in southern Greece, the stick was one of two wooden artifacts that appear to have been shaped intentionally, according ...

After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

It’s not every day that you find a medieval wheel cross, and it’s even rarer when the find matches another centuries-old ...

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Archaeology is meant to help us understand our past. But sometimes it throws up objects that are so unusual, so advanced or so baffling that we can’t be sure what they really are or what they were ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

Discoveries at a controversial southeastern archaeological site could potentially push back the timelines for human arrival ...

A student from the Sunshine State recently struck gold during an archaeological excavation in Britain – over 4,000 miles from home. Yara Souza of Orlando, Florida, discovered the ninth-century golden ...