Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, ...

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...

Elon Musk—who has 14 kids in total—shared the inspiration behind the names of his and Shivon Zilis' 4-year-old twins Strider ...

The acidic sand of the Suffolk coast has preserved not bones, but shadows; spectral silhouettes that delineate with ...

The Boeslunde gold-decorated iron lances, 2,800 years old and found in Zealand, represent Denmark's earliest iron weapons.

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, thanks to the stratified layers of guano-based sediment. This is in contrast ...

Untraceable drones that spike soldiers with hallucinogens could be right around the corner CHILLING “brain weapons” that wipe memories and incapacitate troops could unleashed in a new phase in warfare ...

In southern Denmark, archaeologists have stumbled upon a discovery that’s rewriting what we know about the region’s past—a massive stockpile of Iron Age weapons buried beneath an ancient dwelling. The ...