From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

No two tools in the 2,000-year-old kit were the same, indicating the owner was skilled in precise stonework, according to the study.

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

Greek language and literature examines the ancient Greek language ... Focus areas include Papyrology (study of Greek-language papyri) Epigraphy (study of Greek-language epigraphs) Linguistics, ...

Researchers know that early people made simple tools from stones as early as 3.3 million years ago. The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather ...