A prehistoric Pyrenees cave may have been an early copper-processing camp repeatedly used for thousands of years, with ...

From the storied shores of Scandinavia to the ancient cities of the Mediterranean, Europe is rich with remnants of its past. Roamed by early hunter-gatherers, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and many ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across North America are challenging our understanding of the continent’s prehistoric past. From the arid Southwest to the coastal regions, these finds reveal a rich ...

Human history feels straightforward when seen in textbooks. A neat timeline with a clear rise from simple tools to complex ...

A beach walk in Norfolk led to the discovery of a 780,000-year-old hand axe, rewriting early human history and settlement ...

In 2010, DNA analysis of a finger bone around 40,000 years old revealed that it came from a previously unknown group of ancient humans, dubbed the Denisovans after the cave in Siberia where the bone ...

Ancient remains dating back some 8,000 years have been discovered in a field in England during preparation to build a massive new link road. The find, near Newark in Nottinghamshire, has been ...

Archeologists say Windover Pond in Titusville is the site of one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in ...

Beginning at least 51,000 years ago with an image of a pig in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, people have made illustrations of animals. Yet they don’t seem to have drawn plants until ...

A planned road expansion in Nottinghamshire, England, has uncovered a significant archaeological site. Digs revealed evidence ...