The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

Supernovas, the explosive deaths of massive stars, could have had a devastating impact on Earth's atmosphere, leading to mass ...

It may look like just another random boulder, but this old Spanish rock bears engraved lines that could be an astounding ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

AT a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute on March 4, the president, Prof. C. G. Seligman, in the chair, a paper by Sir Arthur Keith on “The Discovery of Neanderthal Man in Malta, with ...

The world’s oldest St. Patrick’s Day festival was in St. Augustine, Florida, some 420 years ago. Boston and New York have long laid claim to being the centers of Irish immigration that saw the ...

The block with prehistoric engravings found in Marbella may be 200,000 years old. Credit: Ayuntamiento de Marbella The city of Marbella (Málaga, Spain) has witnessed an archaeological discovery that ...

A newly discovered ancient stone with linear engravings at the Coto Correa site in Marbella, Spain. Credit: Marbella’s Delegation of Culture, Education, and Historical Heritage Archaeologists have ...

Archaeologists have uncovered one of the oldest known burial sites in the world, hidden for 100,000 years in Tinshemet Cave, Israel. The site contains intentional human burials, complete with grave ...