Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

The discovery was made in Tamil Nadu, at an Iron Age burial site in Thirumalapuram near Tuticorin. Dating back to 3,345 BCE, the weapon is now considered the longest Iron Age iron spear ever found in ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a galaxy that is providing unprecedented insights into the early stages of the universe - revealing details that scientists say ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Archaeologists in Tamil Nadu uncover India’s longest Iron Age iron spear, an 8-foot weapon revealing early metalworking skill ...