An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. This frozen archive, meticulously analyzed by ...

Göbekli Tepe, located in southeastern Turkey, is considered the world's oldest known temple complex predating Stonehenge by ...

To the music of conch shell trumpets, a 3,800-year-old citadel of the Caral civilization—one of the oldest in the ...

From the earliest beats of human civilization to the electric pulse of modern music, no instrument has carried the weight of human experience quite like the drum. It is one of the oldest ...

BBC News reports that deeper analysis of the object revealed that the strange mark was actually a Neanderthal fingerprint, the oldest known human fingerprint in existence.

Scientists Found a 43,000-Year-Old Fingerprint That May Be the Oldest Ever Left by a Human The fingerprint’s Neanderthal owner was just painting a self-portrait.

Previous evidence put the first humans in Australia some 65,000 years ago. But these blackened stones say it's more like ...

As time passed, these small civilizations grew and evolved to become incredibly advanced and thriving empires that we still have evidence of today. Take a look back in time to see the oldest and most ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe.

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.