Found in Einhornhöhle cave in northern Germany, the decorated deer phalanx, or toe bone, features an engraved geometric pattern and has been dated, using several techniques, to at least 51,000 ...

38,000-year-old carving includes enigmatic “punctuation” pattern New finding suggests that paleolithic Europeans shared a common set of symbols.

ENGRAVED SAVE An etched design on an 11,000-year-old pendant discovered last year is one of the oldest examples of art in England. The pendant might have belonged to a shaman, researchers say ...

DESIGNING ANCESTORS Engraved patterns on a mussel shell, ... Previous estimates placed the Trinil discoveries at anywhere between 1.5 million and 700,000 years old. Questions or comments on this ...

Researchers have revealed remarkable 15,800-year-old engravings on a set of prehistoric artifacts from the last ice age. The engravings, described in a study published in the online journal PLOS ...

Sacred carvings etched into a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk may finally have been deciphered, thanks to the work of French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier. The monument, which once ...

Engraved patterns on the side of ostrich eggs dating back to the Stone Age could be the oldest form of written communication known to man, claims a new study. By Richard Alleyne and Richardalleyne ...

The ancient mollusc (shown), originally discovered on the island of Java, is between 430,000 and 540,000-years-old, dating to the time Homo erectus inhabited the remote volcanic outpost.