Clay ornaments created 15,000 years ago show that symbolic expression began before agriculture. Evidence suggests both children and adults participated, highlighting early social and cultural ...

For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, ...

Ravne 6 forms part of the Ravne underground complex near Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina (43˚59'44'' N; 18˚09'39'' E; 496.650 ...

Historians assumed that humans first started gambling in the Old World. Scholars traced the earliest dice to Bronze Age ...

In 89 BCE, Rome dispatched forces under the command of general Lucius Cornelius Sulla to lay siege to the city. It was one of ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that the world's oldest known dice were crafted and used by Native American ...

An archaeologist has found remains he believes belong to the famed French musketeer D’Artagnan at a church in the Netherlands, potentially solving the mystery of the hero’s final resting place more ...

UNESCO, the United Nations body that protects historic sites around the world, has identified several cultural heritage sites in Iran that are damaged or are at risk since the U.S. and Israel began ...

Building a quality selection of hand tools to help support your repair, DIY renovation, or emergency preparedness needs isn't always easy. Finding great gear is rarely the problem, though. Starter ...

The search for the forgotten Polish city of Stolzenberg was inspired by a piece of turn-of-the-century German writing. Researchers from the Relicta Foundation found mention of the deserted city in a ...

The intact cannonball weighs four pounds. Alamo Trust, Inc. Archaeologists in Texas recently unearthed a fully intact cannonball that was likely fired during the siege leading up to the Battle of the ...

Discovered in present-day Israel, the beads suggest that Natufian groups used clay for symbolic purposes many years earlier ...