If you want to feel connected to ancient history, just take a look at your shoes, listen to some music played on a flute or take a sip of wine—it turns out that some of the oldest items humans have ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Discoveries are coming out of the dirt in St. Augustine. At an archaeological dig, pieces of history are seeing the light of day for the first time in more than 400 years. Carl ...

A 13,000‑year‑old tool from a cave in central Germany has turned out to be far more than a simple piece of Paleolithic gear.

The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could be even ...

For as long as people have sailed their ships, they have sunk their ships, with shipwrecks littering nearly every seabed on Earth. These wrecks, which now serve as artificial reefs for a myriad of ...

The artifact, a songbird on a pedestal, appears to be about 13,500 years old. This is an Inside Science story. An ancient bird statuette recovered from a refuse heap is the oldest known figurine ...