In a recent archaeological excavation, what initially seemed to be the remains of an ordinary Roman home turned out to be something far more intriguing. The site, upon further investigation, was ...

It’s one of the most fully intact sets of tools ever found on the continent. Archaeologists working near Măgura Călanului hill in Romania have discovered a remarkably rare cache of iron tools dating ...

The tools were found near what was the center of the Dacian kingdom before it was conquered by the Romans in 102 AD, the researcher said. Photo by Aurora Pețan In 2022, a villager walking through the ...

A simple turn of the wrist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2023 has unveiled a centuries-old mystery about ancient Roman craftsmen. Washington State University art history professor ...

Early Europeans butchered elephants and made tools from their bones 400,000 years ago, reveals new research. Analysis of several sites near modern-day Rome in central Italy shows "consistent" evidence ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

“These Roman roads—both paved and unpaved—gave structure to massive cultural shifts that affected Western history for the ...