New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from ...

TEHRAN— The oldest artifacts identified in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province include stone tools and artifacts from the Upper ...

An “emotional and inspiring” archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may ...

Finding 9,000-year-old organic remains in eastern Norway is extraordinarily rare due to acidic soil conditions that typically destroy such materials quickly. The exceptional preservation at Horten has ...

An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the ...

Around 30,000 years ago, a hunter-gatherer left behind what may be a "personal toolkit" in what is now the Czech Republic, a new study finds. Researchers uncovered the extraordinary cluster of ...

What were the lives of women like throughout the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods? Modern archaeology is only just ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Results from the PIXE analysis, showing one of the mapped areas of blue residue. Credit: I. Wisher et al. 2025 The discovery, detailed in a study led by Dr. Izzy Wisher, directly challenges ...

TEHRAN-Archaeological studies show that tool-making humans lived in the Holeylan Valley in Ilam province for about 100,000 ...

In 1991, two hikers in the Italian Alps stumbled upon a frozen body and changed history. The man they found, later named Ötzi, had been preserved in ice for over 5,000 years. His body carried Stone ...

Archaeologists outside of Rome uncover ancient heavy-duty tools made from elephant bones over 400,000 years ago.