The Sicilian dwarf elephant was a tiny, evolutionary marvel. An exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History features a model of it and its baby.

Archaeologists exploring the Sanxingdui ruins in southwest China have reported unearthing over 10,000 relics and artifacts, including gold masks, from two newly discovered pits in recent years ...

Israeli archaeologists recently unearthed the titanic tusk of a prehistoric pachyderm near a kibbutz in southern Israel, a remnant of a behemoth once hunted by early people.

Israeli archaeologists recently unearthed the titanic tusk of a prehistoric elephant near a kibbutz in southern Israel, a remnant of a behemoth once hunted by early people around half a million ...

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Scientists discovered this ancient elephant fossil on the island of Sicily. They said the elephant shrunk rapidly over a million years because of the constraints of the island. The tiny elephant, and ...

Death Masks from Ancient Egypt Find an Afterlife Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old.

A fossilized tusk from a giant prehistoric elephant that once roamed around the Mediterranean has emerged from an excavation site in southern Israel, offering what archaeologists said was a rare ...

An ancient elephant graveyard is finally giving up its secrets. Remains of straight-tusked elephants known as Palaeoloxodon were first uncovered near the town of Pampore, in the Kashmir Valley, when a ...

It’s the first time that a new lineage of elephant bird has been identified from ancient eggshells alone, a pioneering achievement which will allow scientists to learn more about the diversity of ...

What are the most famous ancient artifacts? From the Venus of Willendorf to King Tut's funerary mask, here's what these items reveal about the ancient world.