New research suggests olive trees have been exploited for more than 6,000 years. The first Italian olive oil was produced perhaps 4,000 years ago.

Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...

Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have traveled 25 billion ...

For over a century, strange machining marks on Egyptian stone have defied explanation, showing levels of precision beyond even modern tools. Some researchers now connect this evidence to a dooms day ...

Here, I see activity going back 1.76 million years with a complete sequence," Liu says. He was particularly struck by the ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Deep underground at the Serapeum of Saqqara sit massive single piece granite boxes, some weighing up to 100 tons. Their surfaces are polished to a mirror finish that still reflects light today, even ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. Alamy Chronicle's illustration of "Joshua at Jericho." Jericho's ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...