Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

To truly get an impression of the place, the only way is by traveling it, she believes. For the next 44 years, Rawson ...

Stonehenge gets some well-deserved attention when it comes to British archeology. Between its age, altar stone’s epic journey, and potential origin as a community building initiative ...

Champollion’s decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics was based on the fact that the Rosetta Stone (found during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt) had the same Greek names written in ancient Greek ...

For example, during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt, his army found the Rosetta Stone while demolishing a fort. This had the same message written in ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics ...

A magnificent Pictish stone that has stood for around 1,200 years and features some of the most impressive carvings of the era has been “massively damaged” after it blew over in the wind.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s recent announcement of a $1million prize for anyone deciphering the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) has renewed popular interest in the language ...

In the past 20 years, 280 buildings in this 2,300-year-old port city — known for being the birthplace of Cleopatra and the ancient home of the famed Library of Alexandria — have collapsed due ...

Some dismiss them as a hoax, while others celebrate them as authentic. According to researchers, a portion of the Egyptian hieroglyphs in Australia describe a fleet of Egyptian ships caught in a ...

Angie Stone died on Friday in a car crash in Alabama. She has two children - daughter named Diamond and son Michael D’Angelo. Singer Angie Stone died on Friday in a car crash in Montgomery ...

This limited dataset makes deciphering particularly difficult, as does the absence of a bilingual artifact, like the Rosetta Stone, which helped unlock ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. "Not a single ...