An embarrassment of riches, literally.

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

About 170 years ago, a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the remote Australian outback. Who buried them and for what purpose? Why were they never retrieved?

PARIS — Ask any designer what the key to bringing to life a seemingly impossible idea is, and more often than not they’ll tell you that it wasn’t down to their imagination but to its combination with ...