To explore the stories behind some of the most remarkable examples, Bored Panda reached out to Ali Mujtuba Zaidi, a ...

Nobody told San Luis, Colorado that it was supposed to be a footnote, so it just kept going, year after year, decade after decade, all the way from 1851 to right now. That makes it the oldest ...

Discover 25 incredible things melting ice has revealed, from ancient mummies like Ötzi to perfectly preserved weapons.

At Karahan Tepe, which may be the oldest known village in the world, archaeologists have uncovered an 11,000-year-old ...

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Running 600km along the coast of the Atacama desert, from southern Peru to northern Chile, is a mass-burial site for the ...

Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon. Credit: Simon A. Parfitt / CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists have identified a nearly 500,000-year-old tool made from elephant bone in southern England, making it ...

Lough Neagh, the United Kingdom's largest freshwater lake and the main source of drinking water for Belfast and 40% of Northern Ireland (per BBC), is on its way to extinction. Beyond the lake's ...

C.B. Bucknor was behind the plate for the first time in the era of robot umpires, and Major League Baseball’s oldest human official was struggling. On six separate occasions on that March afternoon, ...

A newly dated mammoth ivory boomerang from Poland is reshaping the story of prehistoric technology and the ingenuity of Ice Age humans. For generations, the boomerang has been closely associated with ...

Everyone knows that the boomerang eventually returns after being thrown. Though this ancient weapon itself cannot return to the past, it can bring a remarkable history to modern times. Ironically, ...