A roughly 1,800-year-old wooden mask that was discovered at the Nishi-Iwata archaeological site in Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture (Provided by the Osaka Center for Cultural Heritage) ...

When it was made: These masks date to at least the 16th century; the one photographed above dates to 1885. Yup'ik masks vary dramatically in size and shape, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray wrote ...

A discovery in Zambia back in 2023 revealed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure, which is believed to be the oldest known wooden construction in the world. The find has surprised archaeologists ...