Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age ...

It was supposed to be a routine Stone Age settlement excavation to clear a path for a new roundabout and water pipes near ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago.

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bubonic and septicemic forms — mainly infecting the lymph nodes and ...

Ancient stone goods found across France may have been made by skilled craftspeople in what is now Paris, who traded along ...

T he world’s oldest mine has been discovered in southern Africa by bombarding ancient materials with neutrons inside the ...

Researchers have determined that grid-like patterns on schist slabs from Ice Age site of Gönnersdorf in Germany depict fish caught in nets.

Nearly 16,000-year-old portrayals of fish surrounded by nets had evaded detection until a new technique took magnification to a new level.

Quincy Jones, the musician-producer whose work was on several of the biggest pop LPs of the century, has died at 91.

But at the same time, there’s real care put into the storytelling to reward players that have stuck with the series — tons of little details and lore to consume, mixed in with Dragon Age’s well ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that ...