But there was one problem: the skull had been crushed and distorted over time. Its true shape had been hidden by pressure, age, and damage. Some features ...

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...

For 40,000 years, these bone-carved figurines lay silent, until now, exposing a lost story of our prehistoric ancestors.

For a long time, imagination was considered a human endeavor. When we’re children, we invent invisible friends and turn ...

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

New analysis of 40,000-year-old carvings discovered in Germany show repeated patterns and structure, hinting that early ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall ...

For decades, the Schoningen spears held pride of place as the world's oldest hunting weapons. Eight wooden javelins, pulled from an ancient lakeshore in northern Germany during the 1990s, seemed to ...

A hand stencil found in a cave on Muna Island, Indonesia, has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it the oldest reliably dated example of rock art.

In the Blink of an Eye (2026), directed by Andrew Stanton, is out on OTT. The sci-fi drama film explores humanity's evolution ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change was the main reason early humans developed new technologies and ideas.