Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

Archaeologists believe they've found the oldest wooden tools ever discovered — potentially 430,000 years old — in Greece's Megalopolis basin wetlands. Here are the details.

"Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets." ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.

You may find stick-and-pokes an intense form of tattooing, but the use of needles, safety pins, or other common sharp objects doesn't look quite so rough when you consider that ancient Melanesians ...

Archaeologists have unearthed Paleolithic glyphs in a German cave, potentially pushing back the history of written communication by over 30,000 years.