Francesca Cartier Brickell discovered a trove of lost family letters in a cellar. The story they told is now part of a ...

Notably, Hongshan, Lingjiatan and Liangzhu are known as the three major jade cultural centers in prehistoric China. Although more than 1,000 km apart, Hongshan culture experienced close exchanges with ...

Archaeological discoveries in many regions of China have injected new vitality into the study of Hongshan culture, an ...

Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption ...

A 3-year-old girl in Israel found an ancient Canaanite amulet shaped like a scarab while she was out walking with her family.

Dremels are incredibly popular for hobbyists looking for a rotary tool, but they're not the only ones on the market. Here are ...

For centuries, members of the B’doul Bedouin tribe lived in the caves around the ancient city of Petra, Jordan. Then, in the 1980s, the government forced the tribe to move in the name of preserving ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant ...

Over 2,000 years after the first petroglyphs were carved into a boulder found in a New England River, controversy still ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...