In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of human migration.

Located in southwestern Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park is home to some of the oldest human dwellings in North America.

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.

The Derveni Papyrus found in Greece is of immense importance and was registered by UNESCO in 2015 as the oldest handwritten ...

Researchers have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved ancient relic in Japan, dating back over 10,000 years.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered what is believed to be one of the oldest depictions of a mythological scene in the world. A 12,000-year-old clay figurine, found at the prehistoric Nahal Ein ...

A plaster cast of the Venus de Milo statue at the Wilcox Classical Museum at the University of Kansas. The museum, founded in 1888, is not well-known by many at KU's campus, but curator Philip Stinson ...

Ancient flint tools discovered in Tunel Wielki Cave have been redated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, making them Poland’s earliest known signs of human activity. The artifacts likely ...

The human remains were found and reported to the local sheriff’s department on June 2 Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously ...