The box was excavated from a Roman-era grave in England. It was found among a trove of artifacts spanning roughly 8,000 years ...

Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The ...

Human bones have been found at a beach, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said the bones were discovered on Saunton Sands on Saturday at about 14:50 BST. They said the bones would be ...

An "extraordinary" artefact believed to date back to the late Roman period has been unearthed in a Worcestershire town. The ...

Artificial cranial deformation is a uniquely human practice that dates back thousands of years, and has been practiced—at one time or another—in nearly every corner of the world. Typically, head ...

In Sweden, during the construction of the Ostlänken railway at Logsjomossen, a 5,000-year-old dog skeleton was found with a ...

A Bronze Age mass burial pit at Twentyshilling Barrow has been found in Scotland during the construction of a wind farm.

Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l'Université de ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in the ...