The 1.6 million-year-old discovery that changes what we know about human evolution - New research suggests language is eight ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism, used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars ...

Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is a unique underground burial complex on the island of Malta that covers 500 square meters (5,381 square feet). It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980, owing to its ...

How one photographer helped give birth to the National Park Service By Lily Rothman There is no shortage of things to see in America’s national parks. Whether the view is of dappled Acadia or ...

I have worked on numerous projects in economic prehistory with Clyde Reed since about 2003. Much of our research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with ...

The loot of prehistory is a faithful companion of war, but this case is special, because it concerns the Holy Grail of philology, the search for the origins of the vast Indo-European family of ...

New Delhi, March 24: Archaeologists have discovered India’s oldest stone-age tools, up to 1.5 million years old, at a prehistoric site near Chennai. The discovery may change existing ideas about the ...

In deep regional Queensland, a retired commercial photographer is finding new life in macrophotography, focusing on ancient ...

THE German Minister of the Interior, Dr. Frick, has issued a circular (under official reference number III 3120/22.6) containing “guiding ideas”(Leitgedanken) for historical instruction in all ...