The "exciting" artefact - used to cut peat and moss - was found during excavation work in Edinburgh. A dig finds two burials, Bronze Age pottery, and remains of an Iron Age and Roman farming ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest known bone tools, pushing back evidence of their use by around a million years. The find suggests early humans had more advanced tool-making skills than ...

Sync your phone notifications with your computer Browse photos from your phone Reply to SMS messages Share files and links between devices Use your phone as a remote control for your computer The ...

Prof Alice Roberts (winner of Book of the Year 2025) via video message, with archaeologist and educator Julian Richards on stage. [Photo credit: Adam Stanford, www.adam-stanford.co.uk] A vividly ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,600-year-old pot containing gold jewellery and statuettes of a family of gods at an ancient Egyptian temple. The artefacts were unearthed at the Karnak temple ...

Shield and chain mail with helmet from the Viking Age. Credit: Krage52 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have discovered Britain’s largest known Viking-era building, offering new insights into early ...

Archaeologists also found 628 ostraca, which were broken pieces of pottery and stone that were used to write and draw. The ostraca were written in hieroglyphic scripts, along with Egyptian demotic ...

The application picker (aka app grid) in GNOME Shell is pretty perfect as it comes, showing launchers for installed apps plus the ability to rearrange them using drag and drop and create custom ...

LANDFJÄRDEN, SWEDEN—According to a statement released by the Vrak Museum of Wrecks, maritime archaeologists have identified a shipwreck that may be the oldest carvel-built vessel in the Nordic ...

An excavation project archaeologists are calling “a game changer” in Motza near the city of Jerusalem, has revealed an expansive 9,000-year-old settlement. According to the Australian Broadcasting ...

Archaeologists unearthed a fire-drilling toolset dating back about 7,000 years at an archaeological site in Jiangsu Province in eastern China. The discovery marks the earliest known physical ...

An archaeology breakthrough has discovered that humans inhabited rainforests around 150,000 years ago, a staggering 80,000 years earlier than previously believed. This revelation comes from an ...