Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever found. Dated to 480,000 years ago, it’s more than 30,000 years older than any ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

Ask people how Stonehenge was built and you'll hear stories of sledges, ropes, boats and sheer human determination to haul ...

Thousands of slate artifacts found on the Tibetan Plateau showcase the resiliency of early humans as they fanned out of ...

What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In the museum's basement ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...

Stone tools dating back 3.3 million years were created long before the appearance of the Homo genus. These discoveries show that toolmaking began with earlier hominins, pushing the origins of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Natural History received global recognition as one of the world’s most beautiful museums. The museum’s $150 million architectural redesign and commitment to ...

The Heinz History Center announced Tuesday that it would be renaming the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum as the Franco Harris Sports Museum in honor of the late Pittsburgh Steelers running back.