After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

Thousands of artifacts, including a more than 150-year-old bottle of alcohol, were recently discovered during an excavation ...

“It is really exciting and very moving to be the first person to pick up a stone artifact since its original maker put it down millions of years ago,” says Sonia Harmand, an archaeologist at the ...

Archaeology is meant to help us understand our past. But sometimes it throws up objects that are so unusual, so advanced or so baffling that we can’t be sure what they really are or what they were ...

A student from the Sunshine State recently struck gold during an archaeological excavation in Britain – over 4,000 miles from home. Yara Souza of Orlando, Florida, discovered the ninth-century golden ...

Archaeology influencer Señor Blue found a tomb with ancient Mixtec artifacts in Oaxaca, drawing criticism both of his actions ...