Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...

The invention of the wheel is a major breakthrough in human history. But now, the records may have to be rewritten - as the ...

After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...

First discovered in 1963, the Treasure of Villena is a haul of 66 items largely made of gold and silver. The treasure – ...

On a misty moor in Cornwall, a monument long thought to date to the medieval period has turned out to be more than meets the ...

Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...

A French-Saudi research team unearthed the 4,000-year-old hidden town named al-Natah within the walled oasis of Khaybar, a fertile land surrounded by desert in the northwest of the Arabian ...

Archaeologists say the finds will help them better understand the prehistoric people who lived or buried their dead in this Italian cave.

Natah, in Saudi Arabia's Khaybar Oasis, revealing insights into ancient urban life and challenging previous notions of ...

Archaeologists excavating a site in Dorset, England, have recovered one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever ...