In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

Here’s our pick of the best Australian road trips. The criteria are simple and selfish: at least 1000km, zero EV charging ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40, ...

Reports of looting led archaeologists to explore an easily overlooked cave in northern Mexico. Eventually, the team found several 500-year-old burials in a hard-to-reach chamber of the cave.

The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...

Researchers from Ghent University worked with artists to reconstruct the face of a woman who lived in Belgium 10,500 years ...