When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

The scientists dated the engravings to more than 57,000 years ago, making them the oldest produced by Neanderthals discovered to date. Stock image: Illustration of a Neanderthal man in a cave.

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

An ancient monument discovered in Turkey may just be an ancient monument. But, if its markings are what experts think they are, it might be the world’s oldest solar calendar.. In a study ...

The 29,000-year-old bones of a child discovered in Thailand are the oldest human remains ever found in the country, archaeologists have announced. The child — nicknamed "Pangpond," after a Thai ...

Scientists have exhumed a nearly 500-year-old bronze conquistador cannon in Arizona that's the oldest gun ever discovered in the United States. By employing radiocarbon dating and other cutting ...

Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map -- and they believe it's led them to the location of Noah's Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries ...

The oldest stone tools ever discovered were unearthed in Kenya by a group of scientists at the Lomekwi 3 site. The stone tools unearthed are simple in their design and pre-date humans.