When researchers first started to look at animal bones from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco, they wanted to learn about the diet and environment of early human ancestors who lived there between 120,000 ...

Ancient Egyptian guards may have used a tiny cow bone with a hole drilled into it to keep royal tomb workers in order. The strange artifact was discovered in the Akhetaten Stone Village, a workers' ...

A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest ...