Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Five millennia ago, ancient fishers buried a dog alongside a dagger in a lake bed. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, thanks to the stratified layers of guano-based sediment. This is in contrast ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

When Britain’s King Charles III is crowned in London on May 6, he’ll sit on an ancient chair housing a 335-pound boulder cloaked in mystery. Used for British coronations since the late 14th century, ...

Why do people wear clothes, and when did they start doing so? To answer this fundamental question, archaeologist Ian Gilligan of the University of Sydney went back to the beginning. “There’s little ...

Incised deer, Cova Dones, Spain(© A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela, X. Martorell) Painted deer heads, Cova Dones, Spain(© A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela, X. Martorell) Deep inside Cova Dones, a cave in the ...