A 60-foot-long reproduction of a Bronze Age boat—of a type that was in use more than 4,000 years ago—has successfully set sail. The replica vessel departed...
Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant...
Some 51,200 years ago on the ceiling of a limestone cave in the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, art history was made. A wild pig was painted...
The oldest known example of figurative rock art has been identified in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Three human-like figures that appear to...
A new form of analysis created by researchers from Griffith University and Southern Cross University in Australia was able to analyse the age of calcium carbonate that...
Image of people and pig found on Sulawesi dates back 51,200 years, say experts A painting created an estimated 51,200 years ago in the limestone cave...
Archeologists find ancient shipwreck cargo buried in Mediterranean Sea Archeologists discovered shipwreck cargo in the Mediterranean Sea that they believe dates back 3,300 years. The oldest...
The 2000-year-old wine found in a Roman tomb in Carmona, Spain Juan Manuel Román/University of Cordoba A reddish liquid found in a 2000-year-old Roman mausoleum in...
Workers in Central Asia made a “mammoth” discovery earlier this month. Laborers came across the bones of an ancient mammoth while quarrying on June 2. In a press...
Steve Stephens | Special to The Columbus Dispatch Many travelers and history buffs are aware that the British Museum in London is, controversially, the repository for...
The Neanderthals had a good run. They were around from at least 200,000 years ago to about 42,000 years ago, only a couple millennia after they...