A nearly 130,000-year-old bear bone was deliberately marked with cuts and might be one of the oldest art pieces in Eurasia crafted by the Neanderthals, researchers say. The roughly cylindrical bone, ...

When novelist Jefferson Bass shows up at Murder by the Book on Thursday, readers of his remarkable mystery Carved in Bone may need to solve a mystery of their own. That's because Jefferson Bass is not ...

Archaeologists find evidence of the first culture in China to carve human skulls and bones into tools roughly 5,000 years ago ...

Choked by rainforest and crowded with fallen leaves, palms, and chunks of stone, the little-known site of Chochkitam, Guatemala, seems an unlikely place for a breathtaking archaeological find—much ...

An excavation in modern-day Turkey near what was once a Roman fortress revealed a pair of carved bone disk-shaped pieces likely used for a strategic board game. Each of the pieces is shaped the same, ...

In an old, historical town in Russia, archaeologists were working on excavations around a defensive structure when they made a remarkable discovery. As they dug down to the hard surface below, a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a carved alligator made of ...

A carved-out cow bone found in Egypt is actually an ancient whistle, once used by an Egyptian “police officer.” This officer didn’t use the whistle to direct traffic, though. He was guarding a royal ...

A hunter missed the mark almost 14,000 years ago, but their bad luck left a valuable discovery stuck in the skeleton of their ancient prey. Dubbed the “Manis projectile point,” the ancient spear tip ...