The discovery of a 12,000-year-old carved scene showing a human confronting an animal is forcing archaeologists to rethink ...

Found near the Sea of Galilee, a figurine depicting a crouching woman and a goose is now hailed as the earliest known ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest sculpture showing a human interacting with an animal ...

Previously, some of the oldest mummies on earth were known to be in South America and dated back to about 7,000 years ago Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony represent the oldest known footprints in Germany. The 300,000-year-old site ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift "toothpicks." ...