The Chumash people were master seafarers who built plank canoes called tomols to navigate the Santa Barbara Channel and trade with neighboring islands. They developed complex social structures, ...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

Trilobites withstood events that shaped our world for more than 250 million years, enduring continents shifting, ice ages, mass extinctions and the evolution of fierce predators. After suddenly ...

In the narrow passageways of prehistoric caves, where torchlight once flickered against limestone walls, a quiet record of human presence remains. Etched in curved grooves and overlapping trails, ...

In a recent study, Dr. Timur Sadykov and his colleagues analyzed the Scythian animal-style artifacts recovered from one of ...

In a remote region of Brazil, archaeologists have unearthed rock art dating back approximately 9,000 years, which ...

Seven megalithic temples are found on the islands of Malta and Gozo, each the result of an individual development. The two temples of Ggantija on the island of Gozo are notable for their gigantic ...

Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. The two sanctuaries consist of circles of menhirs arranged in a pattern whose astronomical ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age. These enormous structures ...

TROY, Ohio (AP) - Archaeologists are uncovering pieces of early history as an Ohio tavern continues reconstruction following a fire last December. Since last Tuesday, crews from Ohio Valley ...

The catch is one of the closest to occur off the UK coast AN extremely rare fish known for eating sharks has been caught off the UK coast. The prehistoric species usually lives hundreds of metres ...