Archaeologists in Norway's mountains have discovered a "very rare" ancient arrow that still has its quartzite arrowhead and feather fletching in place. It's likely that reindeer hunters used the ...

Thirty archers armed with bamboo bows and arrows sit on a platform awaiting instruction. Then they take aim at a straw cylinder 60 feet away. They each have 34 arrows to shoot in four minutes. They ...

Espen Finstad was trudging through mud in the Jotunheimen mountains of eastern Norway this month when he happened upon a wooden arrow, bound with a pointed tip made of quartzite. Complete with ...

KENT >> Metin Eren wasn’t satisfied just digging up ancient arrowheads to learn about the past. He wanted to use them for their intended purpose. But shooting and shattering priceless millennia-old ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about really, really old stuff and its DNA for Forbes. The story of humanity began in Africa. From there, early humans ...

Archaeologists excavating a medieval grave in Bulgaria discovered an unidentified body with an arrow in its chest. The grave, in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, is dated to around the 11th or ...