Stone Age tools discovered at a burial site reveal that those ancient communities valued more than men who hunted - they cared about everyone ...

Heritage is a public good, and it surrounds us in South Africa – it’s in the hills, caves, under earth and in our backyards. If it clusters around privilege, it narrows the stories a society can tell ...

A team of researchers claims to have found evidence of prehistoric human settlement in Karnataka's Vijayanagara district, which includes stone tools, pottery fragments and petroglyphs.

Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission says the find marks a scientific turning point, linking northwest Saudi Arabia to the Fertile Crescent and humanity's shift from nomadism to settlement.

Bronze Age people of Sicily ate horse meat, new study shows, pushing back the animal’s arrival on the island by 1,000 years.

No other animal proteins were found, suggesting this species was consumed for ritual or symbolic purposes, researchers said.

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence that not only were horses present on the Mediterranean island earlier than ...

The pottery piece that experts believe dates to the Early Bronze Age was likely both part of daily usage and held spiritual meaning.

Tanasi published his findings — the earliest documented evidence for the presence and consumption of horse meat in early bronze age Sicily — in the peer-reviewed, open access journal PLOS One, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches of modern Latvia, a ...

Archaeologist Laura Dietrich studies a replica Stone Age axe in Germany. While not from the Latvian site, such replicas reveal how ancient tools were used. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches ...