Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight ...

Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.

An “extraordinary discovery” has been made at one of Orkney’s most stunning Neolithic sites, which could completely rewrite the history and timeline of the site.

The massive pits at Durrington Walls in Wiltshire are set at regular intervals, ten metres in diameter and more than five ...

New evidence suggests that a volcanic eruption around 2,900 BCE had devastating impacts on Neolithic societies in Northern Europe, altering their rituals and lifestyles. Researchers from the Niels ...

The 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey is often called the “zero point of history”, said The Archaeologist. But ...

Leopard cats were living alongside people in ancient China for more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived from Europe ...

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago. Analysis of lumps of birch bark tar from ...

"The main purpose was to bring people together. This design continued in later eras in the form of amphitheaters and odeons,” ...

An unrelated species of small cat lived in human settlements thousands of years before domestic cats, say scientists.

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