At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct ...

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

JAKARTA: The government has pledged to protect archaeological sites in Southeast Sulawesi, especially a cave on Muna Island where the world's oldest rock art was discovered amid mounting concerns over ...

It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

An unusual archaeological discovery in the Judean Hills has again attracted the attention of scientists. A silver goblet from ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

The biggest discovery in 30 years at the Tower of London reveals a possible 14th-century burial pit linked to the Black Death ...

A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...

Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered the world's oldest artwork in Indonesia.Researchers have found that handprints stencilled ...