Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Bill Callahan discusses his new album, 'My Days of 58,' and looks back on his recordings as Smog, working with Noah Cyrus, ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

A researcher claims the Great Pyramids may predate ancient Egypt and could be the work of a lost civilization with advanced ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

New research shows early humans created structured ancient symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing appeared.

The Stoney Baynard Ruins are what’s left of an old plantation building on Hilton Head Island. The structure is made of tabby, which is a mixture of oyster shells, lime, sand, and water. It was a ...

A new study has revealed that mysterious signs carved onto Paleolithic artifacts up to 40,000 years ago match the information density of the world's earliest known writing system — pushing the deep ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...