Explore the discovery of a 19th-century pewter mug, uncovering its history, craftsmanship, and why this antique find is so ...

The discovery of the Snake Goddess made researchers focus on the mysterious religion of Minoan Crete and its connection of ...

Off the western coast of France, archaeologists have discovered a sunken granite Mesolithic wall nine meters below sea level.

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

A man in Bulgaria survived a deadly lion attack 5,000 years ago—his skeleton reveals a story of survival and care.

A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have also hunted in rivers, a tooth ...

The now-extinct sea cow species, Salwasiren qatarensis, was discovered thanks to an examination of 21-million-year-old ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.