Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek building and courtyard on Failaka Island, Kuwait, offering insights into ...

Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...

How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s lead author told NBC News.

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

NEW YORK -- Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back ...

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the world's oldest wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site ...

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

An increasing number of jewelry designers have been incorporating ancient artifacts into contemporary designs, producing the kind of distinctive creations that people crave today. While the practice ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...