Watch how we turn ancient arrowheads into Wootz steel ingots. And then we forge a Viking Sax knife.

Arar, November 11, 2024, SPA -- As winter approaches, the Northern Borders region witnesses a resurgence of an age-old tradition: tent-making. This craft, passed down through generations, is a ...

Credit: David Hiser/Environmental Protection Agency The bow and arrow only arrived in western North America 1,400 years ago, according to a recent dating of over a hundred ancient weapons. This is ...

The bow and arrow arrived across western North America almost all at once, offering new insight into how fast ideas can ...

People in North America adopted the bow and arrow as replacement weapons for the dart and atlatl about 1,400 years ago, ...

A North America study finds the bow and arrow arrived about 1,400 years ago, but its impact differed sharply by region.

For thousands of years, prehistoric hunters across western North America relied on the atlatl, a powerful dart-throwing device, to take down their prey. However, a recent comprehensive study reveals ...

An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

"History and heritage are not just fascinating and beautiful, it's a national strategic asset — it's like having an oil well on your property that never runs out," he said. "It's a huge advantage for ...

New research suggests seabird guano helped transform the Chincha Kingdom into one of the most prosperous societies in ancient Peru. Chemical clues in centuries-old maize show farmers fertilized their ...

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...

It is only 1.5 grams, but it has now been one of the most disruptive artifacts of early engineering to be extracted out of a museum drawer. It is a piece of copper alloy, bound up in a bit of leather, ...