Whether it's calluses, osteoarthritis, or the "phone pinky," our hands tell a story and can reveal a lot about the lives we live and the daily items we use. But what about the hands of our ancient ...

Aristotle called the hand the “tool of tools”; Immanuel Kant, “the visible part of the brain.” The earliest works of art were handprints on the walls of caves. Throughout history, hand gestures have ...

A trio of researchers from Universidad de Cantabria and the University of Cambridge has found evidence suggesting that up to a quarter of all ancient handprints found on cave walls in Spain were made ...

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago ...

New research is shaking up our image of art-making in Paleolithic times, arguing that children or even toddlers may have been behind some of world’s earliest known art. The findings suggest that ...

In a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, a team of scientists analyzed a collection of at least 12 severed hands found in an ancient Egyptian palace. The macabre trove (which would ...

A dozen severed hands found in tombs around a 3,500-year-old palace were likely tokens presented to a king of ancient Egypt to prove the valor of his soldiers in battle, a new study found. A new ...

Researchers uncovered a cache of 12 right hands in the courtyard of an Egyptian palace in 2011. DAI / ÖAI under CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 While excavating an ancient Egyptian palace, archaeologists made a ...

Evolutionary expert Charles Darwin and others recognized a close evolutionary relationship between humans, chimps and gorillas based on their shared anatomies, raising some big questions: how are ...

Archaeologists offer a new explanation for one of the century’s grislier finds, “a carefully gathered collection of hands” in a 3,500-year-old temple. By Franz Lidz Aristotle called the hand the “tool ...