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

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

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 ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

Re-examination of an Egyptian artifact discovered about 100 years ago led researchers to realize it is an ancient “bow drill.” The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how ancient weapons show when the bow and arrow replaced the atlatl, and why the transition played out differently across western North America.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The research team examined the piece under magnification and concluded that it represents the earliest ...

For this video, I'll be making the world's first real diamond water. To do this, I'll be burning diamonds, which are nearly pure carbon (and definitely not "forever"), to make diamond CO2 gas and then ...

This icebreaker uses a rare bow-mounted propeller to attack the ice from underneath, drawing water below the sheet and helping the ship weaken and break it apart. Instead of just riding up on the ice, ...

Stacker curated 25 stills from television with an emphasis on a diverse range of genres, protagonists, styles, and time ...