When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

A huge stash of reddish minerals from a cave in Ethiopia shows how Stone Age people gradually adapted their technologies and practices over a 4500-year period. “It’s one of the rare sites where we can ...

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / KPBS+. Deep in the Arabian Desert lie thousands of enigmatic stone megastructures whose true form is visible only from the sky. Follow ...

A stolen ancient Egyptian head that was seized at TEFAF Maastricht in 2022 has been repatriated to Egypt by the Netherlands.

Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls A copy of a Greek inscription, made by laying wet paper or plaster over carved stone to ...

Archaeologists have discovered dozens of ancient "stone grenades" along the iconic Great Wall of China, according to a report. Researchers made the find in the ruins of a building located in a section ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The 2017 reveal of a tiny but spectacular carved stone, just 1.3 inches wide, upended our understanding of Greek ...

A team of researchers has uncovered extensive remains of a semi-submerged ancient settlement along the northern coast of ...