The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

Archaeologists uncovered Ireland’s largest prehistoric settlement, dated 1200–400 B.C., with 600 homes. Evidence suggests a tightly organized, egalitarian community with advanced water infrastructure.

Archaeologists say they've unexpectedly found a huge Stone Age cremation pyre in southern-central Africa. The discovery is helping them understand the history of cremation. Archaeologists have made an ...

January 20, 2026 • In his second term, the president is embracing a foreign policy that breaks sharply from U.S. tradition. Both supporters and critics say he's upending a global system in place for ...