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

A knitting project showing Britain during the Second World War has been praised for bringing the era to "life". The ...

Artifacts Found in 57,000-Year-Old Sealed Cave Surprise Archaeologists ...

More than 3,000 artworks from national museums were stowed in chateaus in the Lot—about 350 miles south of Paris ...

As David maintains minimal social media presence, remarkably little is publicly known about his personal affairs. He is ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza might get all the headlines, but it wasn't humanity’s first monumental effort. Long before pharaohs were stacking limestone in Egypt, people across the world were carving ...

If you stand on the far end of the Central Gallery at the Yale Peabody Museum, you might catch a green-hued glimpse into the past - and future - of ...

"To the folks of Down East Carteret County, and some locals throughout coastal NC, however, the 'jumpin’ mullet,' as they call it, owns a special place in their hearts and kitchens," Dr. David Burney ...

Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five major mass extinctions, the last of which is perhaps the best known because it ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

For 12,400 years, the cave’s arid air preserved two small scraps of elk hide stitched together with twisted fiber. These ...