The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

"This technology is the key that opens new rooms of the ancient world," said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the vast ...

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion were scratched over 2,000 years ago onto a corridor wall outside of a theater.

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Faint ochre outlines of hands thought to be at least 67,800 years old are the oldest rock art yet discovered. Archaeologists ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

At the height of the world’s first pandemic, the people of the ancient Roman city of Jerash buried hundreds of bodies on top ...

New archaeological finds found in East Yorkshire, led by the University of York, are shedding light on life in England before the Norman Conquest.