At the northern boundry of Anuradhapura, where the Malwathu Oya curves through scrubland and forest and the wilderness of ...

According to the researchers, the poison used on the arrows came from the bulb of the local plant Boophone disticha.

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

The oldest direct evidence of humans using poisoned arrows was in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago. Bone arrow ...

The world’s oldest poisoned arrows – dating back 60,000 years – have been identified. The discovery reveals early advanced ...

The first discoveries in Cádiz date to the early 20th century. In 1914, French scholar Abbé Henri Breuil documented dozens of ...

The world's oldest poisoned arrows, dating back 60,000 years in South Africa, have been identified by archaeologists. The ...

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

Archaeologists working in South Africa have discovered a hoard of 60,000-year-old arrowheads affixed with a surprising, and extra-fatal, security feature.

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

The world’s oldest poisoned arrows - dating back 60,000 years - have been identified. The discovery reveals early advanced ...

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years. The ...