A fragmented comet thought to have smashed into the Earth's atmosphere almost 13 millennia ago is helping archaeologists date stone tools.

A Maya tomb dating back 1,700 years holds funeral offerings, including writings carved on human bones and a jade mask.

Prehistoric mobility among farmers and herders played major roles in the economy on the Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world."

People in the Americas started to use bow and arrows about 5,000 years ago, coinciding with the growth of exchange networks and when people live in villages

The war in Ukraine is destroying the country's cultural heritage on a scale not seen since World War II, according to new research.

Researchers report the oldest record by far of domestic yak, dating back 2,500 years on the Tibetan Plateau.

Footprints preserved in mud were made by humans thousands of years before any people were thought to be in the Americas, a team confirms.

A study of 10,000-year-old skeletal remains from burial sites in northern Chile suggests violence was a regular part of life among ancient hunter-gatherers.

Ancient DNA reveals for the first time where workers buried at Machu Picchu more than 500 years ago came from within the lost Inca Empire.

Bones from an extinct relative of elephants offers a panoramic view of the state's prehistoric life, researchers say.