Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we ...

The T-shaped pillar is the first with a face to be found in the Stone Age archaeological sites of Turkey’s Taş Tepeler ...

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Although the Stone Age is named for the use of rocks to make tools, scientists have found the earliest bone tools in this period as well. How old are they? In 2024, scientists suggested that humans ...

Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission announced Thursday the discovery of Masiyun, an 11,000–10,300-year-old pre-pottery Neolithic settlement northwest of Tabuk, which it said is the oldest documented ...

Recent excavations have shed new light on the four circular ditches, which were identified in a field near Rechnitz, Austria, ...

11,000-year-old Stone-Age in Saudi Arabia pushes Fertile Crescent borders Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission says the find marks a scientific turning point, linking northwest Saudi Arabia to the ...

The findings suggest that Andean people kept hunting and gathering for thousands of years after farming and pastoralism began ...

The most impressive model in the Helsmiths of Hashut range is, unsurprisingly, its leader. Urak Taar is the only named ...

The hacks’ plan was always to “pin it on the girl” – Karen Read. So how that’s pin-it-on-the-girl thing working out now for all the Keystone Kop cone heads, McAlberts and assorted other Norfolk County ...

Researchers found over 60 rock art panels with 176 carvings at three sites, Jebel Arnaan, Jebel Mleiha, and Jebel Misma, ...

Here’s a town that’s older than New Orleans but twice as peaceful. Natchitoches claims the title of Louisiana’s oldest permanent settlement. The historic district looks like a movie set from gracious ...