Ancient humans used meteorites to make tools. Using cutting-edge technology, scientists have discovered that ancient Bronze Age tools were created using iron from meteorites at a time before ...

A team of amateur archeologists excavating a Bronze Age site in the United Kingdom has unearthed a cache of unusual stone tools deposited in an ancient stream more than 4,000 years ago.

It is often said that the ancient Egyptians only had bronze tools with which to build the pyramids, but this is not true. The reality is that they also had iron tools, but they have long ago ...

Medical treatment in ancient Rome was both horrifically gruesome and, at times, highly effective. The Romans believed that ...

The next leap in history occurred around 3000 B.C.E. when several cultures discovered the perks of producing bronze. After initially using copper for tools, humans turned to the more durable bronze, ...

Ancient surgeons just had to go by sight and feel, which makes their success rates pretty remarkable. ... The bronze in most of the tools contains a fairly large amount of arsenic, ...

Ancient implements dating back to the Second Temple period has been discovered at Magdala, a 2,000-year-old Jewish town in the Galilee region. The implements - a decorated bronze incense shovel ...

Archaeologists have discovered a set of ivory tools which scientists believe dates back nearly 400,000 years, about 280,000 ...

The ancient Roman medical tools studied in the University of Exeter’s Science, Heritage and Archaeology Digital 3D (SHArD 3D) Laboratory. The objects were originally found around 125 years ago ...

We may still be looking for proof that aliens exist, but new research into some very curious ancient tools now reveals that humans were using extraterrestrial material long before mankind even drea… ...