The Babylonian map is known as the Imago Mundi and holds the title of the oldest known map in the world as it shows the world ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Could it be that our Paleolithic forebears were more than artists and hunters, that they were also the world’s earliest hydraulic engineers? The finding at the Ségognole 3 rock shelter in France’s ...

In the world of archaeology, finding ancient maps or drawings can reveal a lot about how early humans thought and lived. A fascinating discovery in a French cave is giving researchers new insights ...

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered what may be one of the oldest known depictions of the night sky — a prehistoric star ...

Now, recent archeological work at the famous tomb of Liu He—better known as the Marquis of Haihun —has yielded what researchers believe are the oldest known steel acupuncture needles.

The new timeline suggests the boomerang is between roughly 39,000 and 42,000 years old, which means it’s 30,000 years older than the earliest known boomerangs made from wood by Indigenous ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million years ago.

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest? New research suggests they are.