A team of Chinese scientists discovered a giant sinkhole with a forest at its bottom.
Like modern humans, Neanderthal made and used bone tools for their daily needs.
An unknown species of human apparently mastered obsidian, something it had been thought only occurred in the Stone Age.
Two extremely large flint knives, described as giant handaxes, were amongst the unearthed artifacts.
The discovery of human artifacts made from a long-extinct sloth bones pushes back the estimated date of human settlement in Brazil to 25,000 to 27,000 years.
Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages.
New skeletal DNA analysis proves that who first called themselves English had origins in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Scientists have long believed that Fibonacci spirals are an ancient and highly conserved feature in plants. But, a new study challenges this belief.
Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from African elephants living about 4,000 miles away from England.
Runologists from the National Museum in Copenhagen have deciphered a god disc found in western Denmark which is inscribed with the oldest known reference to Odin.