Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we ...

Researchers say that capuchin monkeys made ancient stone tools discovered in Brazil. Previously academics believed that they were evidence of early human habitation. Capuchin monkeys are capable of ...

Fragile limestone carvings from the Diquís culture undergo conservation at the Finca 6 Museum Site in southern Costa Rica ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered Oldowan stone tools that push the technology’s origins back toward the 3-million-year mark, and they were found beside fossils from ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — Egypt on Thursday unveiled dozens of new archaeological discoveries, including two ancient tombs, at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside of the capital Cairo. The artifacts, unearthed ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

A recent excavation has unearthed 12 human skeletons and a chamber of grave offerings near Petra’s Treasury building, a UNESCO World Heritage site. By Ali Watkins By the time Dr. Richard Bates swept ...

Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, and her husband Aaron Lorenz found the stone behind their home in ...

Ancient stone structures on the West Coast are helping experts understand more about historic food practices, according to groundbreaking scientific research. In a recent interview with Fox News ...