During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

If someone hands you a large, spiral seashell, chances are that your instinct will drive you to hold it up to your ear.

Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of ...

(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University and Tel-Hai College solves an old mystery: Where did early humans in the Hula Valley get flint to make the prehistoric tools known as handaxes? The researchers ...

Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.

Neanderthals were gluing handles onto their tools over 100,000 years ago, possibly making the species even smarter than previously thought. So says a new study that discovered the use of adhesives on ...

When you think of ancient weapons and tools, the first ones that come to mind might be bows and arrows, axes, and swords made ...

Human bone inside Cueva de los Marmoles, the cave in Spain where the study took place. J.C. Vera Rodríguez, CC-BY 4.0 Ancient humans in Spain may have dug up their deceased relatives to make tools ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.