Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Scientists discover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that reveal how ancient animals used Earth’s magnetic field as a ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.

These discoveries dramatically altered humanity's understanding of ancient history. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most amazing ancient relics that display great ...

By measuring the galaxy’s redshift, the scientists behind the discovery were able to confirm that its light has been ...

Featuring ancient ruins spanning from the Paleolithic Age to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), six sites were revealed by the ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

The discovery was made in Tamil Nadu, at an Iron Age burial site in Thirumalapuram near Tuticorin. Dating back to 3,345 BCE, the weapon is now considered the longest Iron Age iron spear ever found in ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...