The vial, also known as an unguentarium, is commonly believed to have held perfumes or cosmetic oils.

A 12,000-year-old discovery offers a rare look at the emergence of complex technologies employed by America’s early inhabitants.

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of ancient humans igniting fires: a 400,000-year-old open-air hearth buried in an old clay pit in southern England. The study, published in the journal ...