Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a ...

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to ...

Indigenous groups in present-day Oregon stitched the fragments together using cord made from plant fiber and animal hair.

Archaeologist Jeremy Moore looked on as workers dug the trench near Alta last summer. The first few days of the dig proved mundane. Then the bones emerged. And bottles. Boot soles and shards of fine ...

What began as a routine relic hunting trip quickly turned into something far more significant. Signal after signal revealed artifacts dating back nearly 2,000 years. Ancient coins, fragments of ...

Archaeologists believe they've found the oldest wooden tools ever discovered — potentially 430,000 years old — in Greece's Megalopolis basin wetlands. Here are the details.

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...