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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON: Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress on ...

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 ...