New research shows stone tool production in the Central African rainforest remained remarkably consistent for a period of ...

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

Traveling through Turkey, I quickly realized the true locals aren’t just the people—they’re the cats. From Istanbul’s ...

Variety chief film critics Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman name the year's best movies, including 'One Battle After Another ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

A 2,700-year-old rock temple has been discovered in Turkey, revealing how the Phrygians worshipped a powerful mother goddess.

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...

Deep underground, thousands of years of silence are abruptly broken by a researcher singing. His voice seems to awaken the walls of the cavern as the intimate space comes alive with the sound of our ...