Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

Experts say the site challenges long-held beliefs about early human civilization. Dr Martin Sweatman, from the University of Edinburgh, has suggested it could be the world's oldest calendar.

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the Homo antecessor. Experts have found Homo antecessor remains that are around 850,000 years old. The oldest human ancestor found ...

Studying these cities helps us understand early human history and how places were connected. The Sumerian Influence: Eridu, ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly ... The remains, which are the oldest facial bones ever discovered in Western Europe, include ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.