Researchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by ...

What started as a covert dive into a “no swimming” zone turned into a pulse-pounding hunt for lost history. As I explored a ...

LIFESTYLE Ancient shipwrecks, artifacts dating as early as 3000 BC uncovered by underwater researchers The 10 shipwrecks that were found dated up to the WWII era ...

A small team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, Michigan State University, and the Desert Research Institute, all in the U.S., has used radiocarbon dating of ...

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A scene of an archaeological dig is shown July 8, 2021, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The dig shows an area of charcoal from a fire that took place hundreds of years ...

Then, they use contextual clues and absolute dating techniques to help point to the age of the artifacts found in each layer. ( Learn how archaeologists dated the earliest metal body part in Europe.

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: We take you now to southern Turkey, where an ongoing archaeological dig has been turning up a trove of ancient artifacts, some dating back thousands of years.

Dozens of looted artifacts, some dating to the 4th century B.C., made their way to a museum for rescued art in Rome after New York investigators seized the pieces and returned them to Italy this week.

The 2009 discovery of footprints (human and animal) left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands ...

Police officers searching a home for drugs discovered more than a thousand ancient treasures dating back to the 12th and 18th centuries, with some even dating back to the Roman era.

What started out as an exploration of a Roman garrison has uncovered artifacts dating back to the time of the Assyrian Empire. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on July 30, 2023.) ...