From JMW Turner to Joan Miró, artists have long admired its power — now a London exhibition celebrates the money-spinning hue ...

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

A group of 6,000-year-old seashells has emerged as the loudest playable sound-producing instruments yet confirmed from ...

The boy’s burial is as striking as his injuries. Hundreds of pierced shells formed a headdress. Ivory pendants and carved antlers accompanied him. A long flint blade—likely a prestige object—rested in ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

This video shows a full walking tour inside the Jardin Exotique cave in Monaco. The walk highlights impressive stalactites, ...

A new film has started production at a ski resort in Montana.

Learn about the bear attack that may have killed "Il Principe," a prehistoric teenager whose skeleton was found in a lavish burial site.

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

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

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...