British Museum Unveils Ancient Artifacts Illuminating the World of Stonehenge in New Exhibit
Everyone is familiar with the giant stone circle, but the world into which it was built is less well-known, the exhibit tells the full story.
Everyone is familiar with the giant stone circle, but the world into which it was built is less well-known, the exhibit tells the full story.
New digital analysis of rock surfaces in a low cave reveals huge carvings and drawings from nearly 2,000 years ago in Alabama.
The British Museum unveiled the most important piece of prehistoric art found in Britain in the last 100 years-a 5000 year-old chalk drum.
Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed. The stones were incised with artistic designs around 15,000 years ago and have patterns of heat damage which suggests they were carved close to the flickering light of a fire, the new study has found. […]
Lady Sapien was a hunter and a mother, an artist and a craftsman, and a new book/documentary seeks who explore her ancient life.
4-year-old Lily Wilder was on a walk on a Welsh beach with her family when she recognized a dinosaur fossil that's 215 million years old.
The genetics of a dark skinned, blue eyed hunter-gatherer from Denmark have been found preserved in a 5,700 year-old piece of chewing gum.
There's a new member of the saber toothed cat genus, the largest ever found, that would have hunted rhinos.
NASA is launching the Lucy Mission which will travel to the Trojan Asteroids hoping to uncover the earliest histories of our solar system.
A vast swath of dark rocky glass in a Chilean desert was a mystery until researchers found it was an exploding comet that melted the sand below.
Astoundingly, a 500 million year-old prawn from the Cambrian Period was fossilized with his brain and nerves intact.
A Nova Scotia man out for a casual beach stroll has stumbled upon what's being described as one of the most significant fossil discoveries in the province's history.
This youngster just discovered the skull of a prehistoric dinosaur in the depths of the New Mexican desert.
Sven Isaksson described the shipyard as the first of its kind, revealing unique details about the Birka Vikings maritime culture in Sweden.
A London auctioneer discovered a Renaissance painting in an old woman's bedroom that just sold at auction for around $320,000.
The smells of a time and place can trigger strong nostalgic feelings, and UCL believe that can be translated into museums of Europe's history.
A volunteer marine archeological group spent 15 years unraveling the extensive mystery, and determined it to be the Santa Cristo de Burgos
A 28-inch long (71-centimeter) statue of Gautama Buddha was found in excavations of the Egyptian port of Berenice on the Red Sea.
Laterina, in the province of Arezzo, sits on a river called the Arno in a valley where Da Vinci worked for the cardinal Cesare Borgia
Lager is the world's most popular beer, and new research shows it was invented by accident more than 400 years ago when two yeasts mated.
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