When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

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

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The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of ...

Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 but has faced rumours ...

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

Archaeologists unearth the first physical evidence of a basilica designed by the legendary Roman architect Vitruvius.