Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Doban-kun, which means "flat clay man" in Japanese, is 2.3 inches (5.8 centimeters) tall and 1.5 inches (3.7 cm) wide and ...

The Getty Villa is an educational center and art museum located the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The precious pre-Islamic artifacts destroyed by the jihadists are now in pieces, but the archaeologists working in Nimrud are ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be ...

ScienceAlert adds how archaeologists have been studying Bahra 1 since 2009. The University of Warsaw details how the area remains of great interest due to the unique artifacts it produces, such as an ...

Babylonians were using advanced geometry over 3,700 years ago. Their clay tablet, Si.427, reveals a world of surprising ...

The ancient Rujm el-Hiri ('Wheel of Ghosts') site on the Golan Heights plateau in southwest Syria, is a marvel of a monument ...

Polish officials recently announced the discovery of an unusual alien-like clay head, which dates back to the Ubaid period of ancient Mesopotamia. Pottery was also found at the site.

During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, the fez, or tarboosh, was more commonly worn by the urban educated elite, the effendi ...

Ancient societies many attitudes toward altered states of mind. Some favored fermented drinks, while others used psychoactive plants.

Old Clay Bowls That Hint at Mysterious Collapse of One of the World’s 1st Governments The archaeological site of Shakhi Kora, located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, revealed excavations that ...