The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

These sites, ranging from ancient ruins and historic city centres to spectacular natural landscapes, are recognised for their ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Wood's perishability has long obscured early toolkits, with prior records like Germany's 300,000-year-old Schöningen spears ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

Italy tops the list with 60 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, followed by China with 59. Germany ranks third with 54, France has ...

I n August 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, a scattering of ivory mammoth fragments was ...

This marks another milestone for Roman-period archaeology in Hesse: The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation ...

Several years ago, construction work for a new school in Frankfurt led to a discovery of regional importance: a large Roman sanctuary. This was followed by extensive excavations carried out by ...