A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...
A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...
The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...
Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...
The bonebed contains the 21-million-year-old remains of sea cows, sharks, barracuda-like fish, prehistoric dolphins and sea ...
A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...
In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...
The film ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’, about the Death Railway, takes place in the jungle on the border between Burma and ...
A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...
New research shatters the myth of the meat-hungry caveman, revealing a hidden chapter in human evolution. Long before farming ...
Versions of the same Bronze Age structure pop up all around Ireland and throughout the United Kingdom. Archaeologists, however, still have not agreed on their purpose. On a typically misty morning in ...
Ice Age humans crafted extraordinary shelters from mammoth bones, showcasing a remarkable blend of survival instincts and ...