You might think ancient weapons were crude, but they were terrifyingly effective. Stone Age tools were engineered for maximum damage in hunting and combat. The violence of survival back then was ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ice sheets dominated the Northern Hemisphere, and much of the Southern ...

This skin tone appears to be slightly lighter than that of most other Western European individuals from the Mesolithic period (or Middle Stone Age) that scientists have studied so far. Comparing her ...

The 23 models displayed clothes ranging from the Stone Age, some 6,000 years ago, through the Iron Age, 2,000 years ago, to the Viking era. The latest fashion was from the Middle Ages.

The metal suits worn by knights during the Middle Ages were originally designed to protect against weapons such as swords. But could medieval armor also stop bullets?

Stone Tools Discovered in China Resemble Neanderthal Technology Used in Europe, Creating a Middle Stone Age Mystery Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool ...

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 kurgans, or burial mounds, dating to the Middle Ages, and some have "mustaches." ...