Cavers have spent the past year digging mud and rock from a cavern as part of a project to open a new stretch of the underground site to the public. The cave, near Pateley Bridge in the Yorkshire ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Leading an archaeological dig in a northern Israeli cave, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine have unearthed clues about early man’s lifestyle in an important ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig even deeper in time — much deeper — visit a cave. Some of my favorites, in ...

Archaeologists and students digging in Blätterhöhle cave uncovered a 9,000-year-old fireplace (above), flint arrowheads and a bone harpoon. Photo from LWL-AfW Olpe / Michael Baales Inside a cave of ...

A deep excavation in Indonesia has uncovered evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, possibly within overlapping periods. The finding comes from a long-running dig ...

Could we - that is, Homo sapiens - and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on ...