Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected discovery teaches us something new about the development of our species. Relics ...

Indigenous groups in present-day Oregon stitched the fragments together using cord made from plant fiber and animal hair.

Artifacts recovered from a cave in central Oregon were recently found to be possibly the oldest known sewn material. The ...

An unassuming grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far earlier chapter than anyone expected. The burial, part of a prehistoric cemetery near the modern ...

In 1958, an amateur archaeologist named John Cowles excavated the Cougar Mountain Cave in Oregon and retained many of the artifacts found there. Upon his death in the 1980s, these items were ...

The federal government has seized back 14 Egyptian artifacts collectively valued at millions of dollars — at least one of which was on its way to a private collector in Edgewater — the U.S. Attorney’s ...