A trove of rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in south-west China reveals that early humans in the region may have relied heavily on underground plants like roots and tubers for sustenance.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,000-year-old gold mining and processing complex that opens a rare window into how ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Archaeologists in Stepping excavated an abandoned Iron Age village and unearthed several loom weights used in weaving, a museum said. Photo from the South Jutland Archaeological Museum Sifting through ...

A construction project to upgrade a sewer conveyance system in Canada led to the discovery of an archaeological site containing ancient wooden tools. Archaeologists uncovered 3,800-year-old wooden ...

Asia's Gift to Global Kitchens A spider (simplified Chinese: 笊篱; traditional Chinese: 笊籬; pinyin: zhàolí) is a type of ...

You know the usual suspects: blade, can opener, tiny scissors. But the real fun of a Swiss Army Knife? It's all the unexpected stuff packed in between. For over 140 years, its engineers have been ...

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools, made from ...

GENOA - Gayhart Swenson's wife of 59 years remembered how it began. "He's told me all our married life that when he retired he wanted just a little hole in the wall for his tools," Pat Swenson said.

Smart kitchen gadgets are like that overqualified friend who talks too much at dinner parties. They promise everything but need constant attention. Before apps ran your toaster, kitchen tools just ...