Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park sits quietly in the Santa Ynez Mountains, patiently waiting for curious travelers to discover its ancient secrets. This isn’t the kind of attraction with tour ...

What scientists uncovered about its creators could upend everything we thought we knew about prehistoric life—and it’s ...

As researchers discover overlooked tattoos on mummies from around the world, it's prompting new insights about some of the ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

Recent archaeological discoveries suggest that Neanderthals, long seen as lacking symbolic culture, may have crafted and used ...

Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

Jordan Moller, a local artist who spends his professional life "digging holes" is turning his academic rigor on the ...

Discover how India's tattoo culture evolved from sacred tribal traditions to powerful symbols of healing and self-expression.

The Chumash people were master seafarers who built plank canoes called tomols to navigate the Santa Barbara Channel and trade with neighboring islands. They developed complex social structures, ...

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

IN the spring of 2023, at an isolated archaeological site in the Nafud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, a day labourer named ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...