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Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...
The pigment “Egyptian Blue” was invented about 5,000 years ago. It’s the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment. But it was lost to time, until recently. Scientists at Washington State ...
After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media ...
It's the first ancient Egyptian cartouche ever found in Jordan. ... which Egypt used in everything from tools to weapons to pigments—it would later be competed over by the Assyrians and Babylonians.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Stone tools crafted by ancient humans between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago that were recovered from coastal South Africa's Robberg caves match contemporaneous styles found in ...
3.3 million years ago: Hominids make crude stone tools. Harmand/MPK/WTAP; 3 million to 2.6 million years ago: Butchered animal bones appear in the archaeological record.
In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...
The death ray of Archimedes. Archimedes (287-212 BCE) was a mathematician, astronomer, engineer, physicist and inventor. His greatest invention is the one that rescued Syracuse, the ancient Greek ...
The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America. Skip to content Skip to site index U.S.
An ancient human’s hunting kit castoffs found in modern-day Big Bend National Park can help reveal how people lived in the region 7,000 years ago, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife.