Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario. Now, ...

A mammoth tusk boomerang discovered in Poland is approximately 42,000 years old, potentially making it the oldest known ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they found.

Since the 1830s, a mysterious and massive runestone in the woods of Oklahoma has fascinated and baffled those who've ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

The wear of the stone suggests it could be as old as the 1600s, but experts only have the evidence of Swedish speaking individuals being in the region some 200 years ago.

JINAN -- Management authorities of Mount Taishan, a UNESCO world heritage site in east China's Shandong Province, have reported their latest finding of a stone carving that dates back more than nine ...

If their hypothesis holds, the find could rival or exceed other iconic prehistoric markings—like the Quesang fossil handprints in Tibet, estimated to be between 169,000 and 226,000 years old. Those ...

Archaeology & History These 200,000-Year-Old Rock Carvings Could Be the World’s Oldest The markings are 100,000 years older than regional cave paintings. The Marbella rock was first found in 2022.