For tens of thousands of years, humans painted animals, symbols, and bodies — but almost never faces. Then archaeologists found a tiny ivory carving in France that may be the oldest human face ever ...

The cenotes of Mexico are famous not only for their beauty, but for the archaeological finds they reveal.

Scientists have discovered some of the oldest footprints ever found, preserved in ancient ground for thousands of years. These tracks provide a rare glimpse into the lives of early humans and how they ...

A diver just found 8,000-year-old human remains in a flooded Mexican cave, and they may hold the secrets of an ancient ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Researchers investigating the prehistoric wetlands of the Duvensee Moor in Schleswig-Holstein have uncovered the skull of a wild aurochs that had once been mounted on a wooden post near what is ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system.

Researchers on Cape Cod, Mass., recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help understand how the animals communicate. The recording is the song ...

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

A tiny object from an Oregon cave is pulling archaeologists back into one of the oldest and most contested chapters in American history.