A 7,500-year-old antler unearthed in Sweden had characteristic breakage patterns that suggest it was the handle for a battle ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

This southwest England area has served as a crossroads for multiple civilizations, dating back 12,000 years.

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or ...

"People want to bring that warmth back into their homes, and I find there are elements of the Arts and Crafts movement that ...

Dumitrache is no stranger to ancient discovery. In 2024, the shepherd was at the base of Merez Hill in the town of Șoimești, about an 8-mile drive to the northeast, when he spotted bones for the first ...

Pierre Terjanian, who is presently the museum's chief of curatorial affairs and conservation, will assume the new role in July.

Roughly two million years old, this tool, known as the Kanjera stone, was part of a new Stone Age technology that helped ... is the oldest human-made object in any Smithsonian collection.