When Ohio’s Overfield Tavern Museum went up in flames in December 2024, it created a rare opportunity for archeologists to ...

Researchers found over 200 cultural artifacts within nests of bearded vultures, with the oldest item to date — a woven sandal — estimated be from the 13th century.

Archaeologists in Ukraine uncovered 400,000-year-old ivory tools, the oldest ever found. Long before Homo sapiens existed, early human species shaped ivory into points and cores, revealing unexpected ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

A stone wall discovered deep inside Theopetra Cave in central Greece may be the oldest surviving human-built structure ever ...

Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

In a cave near Portland, Missouri, archaeologists are digging into the sandstone to look for clothing and tools made 8,000 ...

The Dog Aging Project enrolled 50,000 companion animals to track aging as it naturally unfolds. The first major findings from ...

The smaller, less visited parts of the United Arab Emirates offer a window into the past of a country whose riches once came ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...