After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

“It is really exciting and very moving to be the first person to pick up a stone artifact since its original maker put it down millions of years ago,” says Sonia Harmand, an archaeologist at the ...

Discoveries at a controversial southeastern archaeological site could potentially push back the timelines for human arrival ...

Archaeology is meant to help us understand our past. But sometimes it throws up objects that are so unusual, so advanced or so baffling that we can’t be sure what they really are or what they were ...

A student from the Sunshine State recently struck gold during an archaeological excavation in Britain – over 4,000 miles from home. Yara Souza of Orlando, Florida, discovered the ninth-century golden ...

Archaeology influencer Señor Blue found a tomb with ancient Mixtec artifacts in Oaxaca, drawing criticism both of his actions ...