At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

The tall, adult men probably died during the battle of Mursa in 260 C.E., according to a new analysis of their remains ...

Volcanic ash deposits above and below the bones at Casal Lumbroso date the carcass to around 404,000 years ago, during a warm ...

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is ...

The tools were found near what was the center of the Dacian kingdom before it was conquered by the Romans in 102 AD, the researcher said. Photo by Aurora Pețan In 2022, a villager walking through the ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing over 300 skeletal remains excavated in northwestern Rome, a team of ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Rome once had a near-equal rival just 11 miles away in the early days of the empire. The ancient Roman city of Gabii may not ...

In the heart of the ancient Roman city of Gabii, located just 11 miles east of Rome, a team of archaeologists led by ...