They’re not the six-sided dice we’re familiar with now, but these ancient tools were crucial for rudimentary games of chance 12,000 years ago.

The world's oldest octopus fossil is no longer an octopus. A new study by researchers says the 300-million-year-old creature ...

A fossil once hailed as the world’s oldest octopus has been reidentified as a nautilus relative, overturning decades of scientific belief. British researchers used advanced synchrotron imaging to ...

New research casts doubt on early humans arriving in the Americas, challenging a Chilean site dated for decades to 14,500 ...

New research on dice suggests Native gambling traditions span 12,000 years, complicating debates over tribal casinos and ...

The site contains 500 years’ worth of continuous Roman burials.

Archaeologists in Romania uncovered 34 Roman‑era graves and rare artifacts during a preventative dig ahead of building a new ...

Spanning from the Paleolithic period to the Xixia period (1038-1227), a total of 21 Chinese archaeological sites scattered ...

Historians assumed that humans first started gambling in the Old World. Scholars traced the earliest dice to Bronze Age ...

New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

As America celebrates 250 years many local communities are reflecting on the history that helped shape the nation -- ...

This spring, the museum is hosting events exploring everything from how our ancestors wielded wooden tools to the work of ...