Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

The Natural History Museum is marking a milestone anniversary this year for one of its most popular community events as the ...

Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found.

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, Researcher at the University of Reading, about the significance of the Schöningen ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...