This is a wall engraving from Abri Castanet, a shallow cave in southern France’s Vezere valley. It’s the oldest known cave etching, probably dating back around 37,000 years — and the researchers claim it depicts female genitalia.
If Jurassic Park taught me anything, it was that velociraptors were fast, deadly and terrifying predators. But it turns out that might not be true, because a team of researchers has discovered that ‘raptors were scavengers.
A discovery at a couple of archaeological mound sites in northern Peru has scientists believing that the people living there were eating popcorn almost 1000 years earlier than previously reported.
Archaeologists have found the world’s oldest bed in South Africa and it’s 50,000 years older than any bedding ever found. The 77,000-year-old bedding, which was made with medicinal plants, shows how creative our ancestors could be.
An excavation in a part of Jerusalem known as the City of David has uncovered stone markings that date back thousands of years. Nobody has any idea what they are or what they mean.