Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

Gu Man, director of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, explained that the existence of these needles represent the oldest physical evidence of steel medical needles in ancient China. They ...

Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious 400,000-year-old artifacts made from mammoth tusks that may be the oldest human-made ivory objects ever found. They describe their findings in a recent ...

For those who believe they've made a similar discovery, Slade encourages contacting a local museum or archaeological society.

Newly uncovered wooden tools from Pleistocene China reveal complex, plant-focused technology far earlier than expected in East Asia. Researchers working at the Pleistocene-era Gantangqing site in ...

The boomerang, found in a cave in southern Poland, may be the oldest in the world, dating back 40,000 years, according to ...

Researchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years ...

Yet, such artifacts are rare direct sources into the lives of historical amputees. We focus on the tools amputees used in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. There are few records written from amputees’ ...

A three-year-old child in Israel made a remarkable archaeological discovery in the form of a 3,800-year-old relic. While out on a hike with her parents and two sisters at the archaeological site ...