Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

The most famous four-legged weapons in warfare may have left a trace after all.

Stoic clusters of rocks, pebbles and rusted fragments recently made people pause and ponder during a recent science fair at ...

Archaeologists uncovered what they believe are the oldest wooden tools ever discovered — dating back hundreds of thousands of ...

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered dozens of arrows—some dating back 6,000 years—melting out of a 60-acre ice patch in the county’s high mountains. Expeditions to survey the Langfonne ice patch ...

For a deminer, an object found in the ground usually represents a lethal threat. For David Simonyan, however, the soil of ...

Hannibal marching his elephants over the Alps is one of history's most legendary moments, and now archaeologists have found a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — For more than a century, people across the Ozarks have believed that untold wealth lies hidden beneath their feet. Spanish silver sealed in caves. Civil War gold buried to keep it ...

New excavations and geomagnetic data from the Eilsleben site in Germany reveal a massive, fortified outpost dating back to ...

When admiring the natural beauty that are America's national parks, it can get tempting to pocket a rock or feather as a memory. But that's not a great idea.

The rolling hills of southwestern Spain hide architectural ambitions that predate the pyramids. Ground-penetrating radar and ...

A rare roe deer skull headdress unearthed at the early Neolithic settlement of Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt is sharpening the picture of how Europe’s first farmers and local hunter-gatherers interacted, ...