The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

Bone tools have been created by hominins for millions of years, with the earliest evidence for the manufacture of ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

A clay artifact, about the size of a finger, was discovered during an excavation at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra in Syria ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any ...

Nearly a decade ago, an explosion on the sun "contained components of three different types of solar eruptions". Studying the eruption could unlock mysteries on how they occur. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools ... I describe our discovery in China ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

and our invention of many new kinds of stone tools. In our study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of international collaborators and I describe our ...

Many have claimed to have "discovered" the America's first. From Christopher Columbus, to Leif Erikson, all the way to the first paleoindians who set foot on the continent during the last ice age.