A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

If you want to feel connected to ancient history, just take a look at your shoes, listen to some music played on a flute or take a sip of wine—it turns out that some of the oldest items humans have ...

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

Ancient history has been brought to life with the discovery of a 3,500-year-old city in Peru. The city, believed to be part of the Americas’ oldest civilization, boasts 18 structures and a plethora of ...