Early humans started making and using tools 2.75 million years ago
Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone…
Oldest Blue Pigment In Europe Might Have Been Stone Age Make-Up
Both Neanderthals and early Homo Sapiens created art. Their cave paintings from the early Stone Age have been…
Huge Camel Carvings Dating Back 12,000 Years Marked Wet Season Oases Like Cultural Road Signs
The outline of a camel etched into stone near a seasonal water source – Credit: Sahout Rock Art…
Albania Digs Up a Roman Noble’s Tomb–the First of its Kind Ever Found in the Country
First Roman-Era Tomb found in Albania – Photo courtesy of Blendi Gonxhja Once a byword for backward and…
Viking Age discoveries found frozen in ice
In 2011, archaeologists from Secrets of the Ice, a glacier archaeology program, uncovered the remains of a Viking…