While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...
The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...
Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.
The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time ...