Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Archaeologists discovered a 6,000-year-old skeleton showing healed lion attack wounds. The ancient man survived the brutal encounter as a teenager and lived for months afterward.

When workers in northern China cut into a hillside for a new road, they did not expect to open a window onto a world where a ...

Researchers in Australia think the painting - which has been discovered in South East Asia - could tell us more about how ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

(CN) — Step aside, Bob the Builder — ancient human relatives have been collecting stone materials to build personal toolkits for as long as 2.6 million years, scientists said Friday. Known ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a young man who lived 6,000 years ago — and survived a brutal encounter with a lion. A study published in the February 2026 edition of the ...

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ...

Source: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann / Wikipedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 For most of our history as a species, we lived as tribal hunter-gatherers. Modern humans have been around for roughly 200,000 ...