Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, ...

Long before recorded history, someone walked across this ground. For a brief moment, their steps pressed into the surface — ...

For tens of thousands of years, humans painted animals, symbols, and bodies — but almost never faces. Then archaeologists found a tiny ivory carving in France that may be the oldest human face ever ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

In the very heart of the ancient lands of Eurasia, a major scientific discovery has shed new light on one of the oldest and ...

Fragments of decorated ostrich eggshells. (Texier et al., J. Archaeol. Sci., 2013) Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable discovery in New Mexico that proves once and for all that humans came to North ...

The oldest known joke in known human history is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?" In fact, it's a fart joke that can ...

One of the most ubiquitous birds on earth is the sparrow, Celebrate World Sparrow Day 2026 on March 20 with the theme 'I Love ...

The Buddhist Jātaka tales represent a substantial collection of folklore, consisting of 547 poems. Archaeological and literary evidence suggests that these stories were compiled between the 3rd ...

William Thomas Green was last seen by his relatives in Knoxville, Tenn., sometime in 1977, authorities said ...

New research challenges a key archaeological site in Chile, raising fresh questions about when humans first arrived in the ...