New book reveals the untold story of women's crucial role in prehistoric New Mexico gardening, cultivating high-protein foods ...

Have you ever seen animals today, like certain birds or reptiles, that sort of look... prehistoric? It turns out that once ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

Archaeologists discovered a 6,000-year-old skeleton showing healed lion attack wounds. The ancient man survived the brutal ...

Step into Arizona’s ancient past and see the actual footprints left by prehistoric giants in this remote, awe-inspiring ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

Ancient civilizations accomplished feats of engineering that continue to challenge modern understanding. Despite advances ...

A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

Cheetahs vanished from Saudi Arabia half a century ago. Now long-dead mummified big cats may help herald their return.

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...