Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

Anthropologists with the University of Utah’s natural history museum uncover microscopic plant residues in bedrock metates, ...

Unlike the typical papyrus scrolls used by ancient Egyptians, this book had pages that resembled a type of treated metal or stone, bound together with an intricate mechanism. Early analyses ...

A new book, The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom at the University of Leicester, UK, pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so ...

"Abstract thinking is a cornerstone of human cognitive evolution," says archaeologist and lead author Mae ... analysis of the stone flint cores in comparison to other ancient stone artifacts ...

In both ancient and modern contexts ... Today, all that is left of these sites are the stone wall ruins. These settlements were densely populated. They consisted of central kraals (livestock ...

A Day in the Life of a 10-year-old in the Stone Age. Watch more video Take a journey back to ancient Britain! Our resources will let you forget about the modern world and get into the minds of our ...

The British Museum houses an incredible collection of artefacts from Ancient Egypt, from the famed Rosetta Stone to an impressive collection of mummies.