Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people ...

While snooping around one of the world’s most remarkable archaeological sites, researchers peeled away layers of dusty earth ...

A silent face has resurfaced after more than 11,000 years underground. In the arid hills of southeastern Turkey, ...

Archaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material ...

Work has started on a project to unearth the secrets of a prehistoric ritual site in Cornwall. Described by experts as the ...

Researchers discovered 614 stone plaques and fragments at Vasagård West, an archaeological site on the Danish island of Bornholm. National Museum of Denmark Over the years, a variety of mysterious ...

In Neolithic civilizations across China, a large number of human skulls that were meticulously processed have been discovered ...

Throughout Sardinia, these newly Unesco-inscribed stone necropolises tell the story of the island's pre-Roman funerary ...

A groundbreaking archaeological study has revealed the first and only known instance of systematic human bone modification in Neolithic China, challenging our understanding of ancient Chinese mortuary ...

With a history spanning millennia, the 4000-year-old site in Scotland dates back to Neolithic times and has a key literary ...

A neolithic burial chamber in Carnac, France (Mark Cartwright/Creative Commons) (CN) — Early humans experienced a rapid population collapse across large parts of Europe five thousand years ago, the ...

A team of archaeologists believes that three impressively sized circular ditch structures from around 4500 B.C.E.—which the team discovered in what is now southeastern Austria —are evidence of some of ...