The discovery changes everything we thought we knew about Palaeolithic pigment use in Europe, said archaeologist Wisher.

The team found that the pigment was azurite, a deep-blue copper mineral. At ~13,000 years old, it represents the earliest ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

This tiny track, alongside those of an older child and at least one adult, is at the heart of a remarkable discovery. For the ...

Ancient ocean grains show Earth’s carbon levels were far lower than expected during key evolutionary eras. The results challenge old theories of life’s rise and hint at patterns that could shape our ...

A powerful Central Texas story is coming to life on the big screen this October. The award-winning documentary "The Stones Are Speaking", directed by former jou ...

What if these massive works were persistence systems — deliberate attempts to encode cultural memory into the only medium capable of withstanding millennia: stone? Seen this way, alignments with ...

Since most pachycephalosaur fossils are just fragments of skulls, this complete skeleton provides the first chance to connect ...