Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a cave settlement dating back 16,500 years—5,000 years older than Göbekli Tepe. Inside were stone tools, bone artifacts, and 70 arrowheads from the Epi-Paleolithic.

Sprawled across much of the Arabian Peninsula, today’s Arabian Desert is known for brutal heat, dry, harsh winds and scarce water—hardly hospitable to human settlers unaided by air conditioning and a ...

Deep within a long-sealed cave overlooking the Loire River in central France, scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest known Neanderthal cave engravings. Hidden for tens of thousands of ...

Explorations of a submerged passage in the Tlayococ cave in Mexico led to an undiscovered room. Within the room, cave explorers discovered bracelets sitting atop stalagmites and other artifacts from a ...

The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels and donkeys, as well as hundreds of engraving tools, hints at complex early settlement in the region following the Ice Age. By Franz Lidz In the spring of ...

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved out an existence about 12,000 years ago in the harsh environment of northern ...