The Stone Age in Britain took place between around 15000BC to 2500BC. The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

Scientific innovation has been a reliable motivating force behind economic growth. But Associate Professor Benjamin Jones has found that as more becomes known about the world, scientists are taking ...

He said: "We found a lot of worked flint from the Mesolithic period. There were three post holes, material from which was carbon dated at between 9220-9280 years old - plus or minus 30 years.

It turned out to be 9,500 years old, meaning the individual lived during the Mesolithic period, which in northern Europe began at the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago and lasted until ...

"We have a new phrase called the 'new four great inventions' in China, including high-speed railway, online shopping, mobile payment and sharing bikes," he told journalists at the NPC. But these ...

Chinese invention flourished during the Tang (618-906) and Song Dynasties (960-1279), sometimes referred to as China's golden age. Inventions during that period included movable type, gunpowder ...

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Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The directorate of state archaeology has found 13 rock shelters of mesolithic period in Narsinghpur and Chhindwara district for the first time. The state archaeology ...

CNBC Select will update as changes are made public. How much you should be saving for retirement is an age-old question that just about everybody wants to know. While the answer has a lot to do ...

When I get together with my girlfriends we talk about all kinds of things. When I started my period that's who I wanted to talk about it. They could answer a lot of questions that I had ...