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

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 ...

The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about the roles of women and children in Stone Age societies. Analysis of remains ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

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 ...

The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements found in archaeological sites around the world. A mano is a hand-held stone ...

The Old Kingdom Sun Temple at Abu Ghorub is home to massive stone artifacts that appear to bear signs of advanced machining.

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

The Rosetta Stone was vital in understanding the writing system of hieroglyphics, which spent years as a forgotten writing system. After the stone was first discovered, it took many years for it to be ...

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 ...