For centuries, the quiet banks of the Tollense River in northern Germany seemed ordinary, until new research revealed traces ...
A scientific team that includes research staff from the University of the Basque Country (EHU) has succeeded in ...
Work to rebuild a prehistoric roundhouse destroyed by a fire is expected to be complete by January. The Iron Age replica at Flag Fen Archaeology Park near Peterborough was built in 2022. But it was ...
The approximately 9,000-year-old grave of the shaman from Bad Dürrenberg (Saalekreis district) is one of the most spectacular finds in Central European archaeology. Excavated under considerable time ...
A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...
A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...
The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...
Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...
New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...
A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...
The twin lakes, known as Zerelia, in Greece are rare examples of bodies of water that were formed from the cataclysmic impact of a meteorite.
The city of Parthenope was one of the earliest ancient Greek settlements on the coast of what is now Naples, Italy.