Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

To date, the only human skeleton ever found at a Clovis site belongs to a 12,900-year-old toddler from Anzick in Montana.

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are just one week away and United Nations and Games organizers are urging a 7-week global ...

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

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s lead author told NBC News.

In short, is the US still the world’s sole superpower, able to dictate terms to Beijing even just off the China coast – or ...

New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or ...

A magnificent sculpted golden comb made by a Greek sculptor is one of the great treasures of the Hermitage Museum ...

In the Caucasus mountains of Russia, not far from the cities Tzelentzchik, Touapse, Novorossiysk and Sochi, there are hundreds of megalithic monuments known as dolmens. Russian and foreign ...