Archaeology

Over the past five years, archaeologists have identified more than 1,600 monumental stone structures known as mustatils dotted …

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds — the largest birds ever to have lived — have captured the public’s interest …

At the icy northern tip of Greenland, far into the Artic Circle, a deep bed of sediment beneath …

Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any …

When prehistoric people re-sharpened cutting tools 300,000 years ago, they dropped tiny chips of flint — which today …

Archaeologists have identified a 4,000-year-old goldworking toolkit among the grave goods from an important Bronze Age burial site …

The fossilized remains of a prehistoric toothed bird that lived 67 million years ago are turning the bird …

Researchers are heralding the discovery of an ancient human skull, possibly of Homo erectus, in central China as …

The alphabet was invented around 1800 BCE and was used by the Canaanites and later by most other …

Sixty-six million years ago, a 10-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. New evidence suggests …