For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

The Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, a hub of ancient Chinese Buddhist art and spirituality, fell victim to extensive looting in the early 20th century. Today, the priceless relics taken from this sacred ...

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The lighting is even more accurate, with Ding primarily using torches, kerosene lamps, and candles to illuminate nighttime ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

Archaeologists in Chintamani taluk, Karnataka, have discovered 40 prehistoric sites, uncovering rock paintings from the Neolithic period, around 10,000 years old. These significant findings ...

Signs of prehistoric cannibals who ate both human brains and bone marrow were uncovered in a cave in southern Poland, local media reported. Exploring the Maszycka Cave near the southern city of ...

Within the depths of a cave in southern Poland, researchers made a gruesome discovery about the prehistoric people who lived in the area 18,000 years ago. A recent study analyzing human remains found ...

Explore the origins of the 8 oldest sports in human history, including running, boxing, and gymnastics, and how they shaped ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring a cave called the Cova de les Dones in eastern Spain.

In their paper published in Scientific Reports, the group describes their analysis of bones found in the cave many years ago, and the evidence that strongly suggests that the early people were ...