Humans have been making and using wooden tools for over one million years, but since they decompose quickly, they rarely ...

Reuters reports that Peruvian authorities announced the discovery of a major lost ancient city in the country’s Barranca ...

A fragment of marble column dating to the fifth century b.c. unearthed at the site of Casas del Turuñuelo in southwestern ...

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

SOMMA VESUVIANA, ITALY—Japanese archaeologists found further evidence that a large ancient villa buried on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy may have belonged to the Roman emperor ...

LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—Animal fat was a valuable source of nutrition and calories for early human societies. Evidence of hominin groups smashing open animal bones to extract marrow dates back ...

HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ, CZECH REPUBLIC—Prior to construction of a highway through eastern Bohemia, archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old Celtic settlement that is being called one of the most ...

MUNICH, GERMANY—According to a statement released by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), LMU researcher Enrique Jiménez was able to decipher a Babylonian hymn that had been lost for ...