From ancient stone tools to early life-changing, read about the innovations that shaped human history and progress.

Archaeologists traced the invention of the lock and key back to Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE. The first wooden pin locks, ...

Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful ...

A negative hand, one of the oldest types of imagery in the world, found in El Castillo. Negative hands were often made using a spit-painting technique in which someone would place their hand on the ...

Silver was used as currency in ancient Israel more than 1,000 years before the invention of the coin, and earlier than in Egypt and Greece, a new University of Haifa interdisciplinary study published ...

Once civilizations rose, artists belonged to a class of citizens, grouped with craftsmen, smiths, and similarly skilled ...

The gorilla should have vanished. In the late 1980s, the mountain gorilla clung to survival in the misted borderlands of ...

Some believe the "Babylon Battery" is an ancient device capable of generating electricity—centuries before modern batteries ...

Archaeologists excavating a section of the well-known Konya's Karahöyük site have discovered three artifacts from different ...

You are probably willing to share sensitive documents up to a point: To get a line of credit or an investment to build your startup, or the thoughts of a trusted co-worker. But do you want to reveal ...