A lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest containing work on the sphere and cylinder has been identified in France.

"It's a kind of notice board … where people left messages, history, greetings, insults, drawings and much more." ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system.

A discovery in Spain shows that ancient people in the Iberian Peninsula were making objects out of iron from meteorites. Two unusual pieces found in the Treasure of Villena were made from this ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has found, combining ingredients in “remarkably selective” ways, with cuisines ...