Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we ...

The Australian aborigines wear practically no clothes, grow no crops, live by hunting and berry picking. Their major art consists of rock pictures of spirits called Wondjina. First painted centuries ...

'Oddly shaped head' left in Italian cave 12,500 years ago is Europe's oldest known case of cranial modification, study finds 50 amazing facial reconstructions, from Stone Age shamans to King Tut ...

What happens when you turn wood older than civilization itself? In this video, I explore the mysteries of Stone Age timber, preserved for millennia beneath the earth. Every cut reveals ancient beauty ...

Humans have always been eager to leave a creative mark on the world, tangible evidence of an artist’s thoughts or actions that might educate, entertain – or perhaps bewilder – current and future ...

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles have been found in England, and they may have been part of a "sacred arc," an archaeologist says. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought ...