DNA reveals burials inside one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments, showing Spain’s Menga dolmen stayed sacred for ...

Museums have spent decades trying to make the distant past feel alive. Audiovisual shows, touch screens and digital displays ...

Project, featured on cover of Archaeology Magazine, underscoring its growing importance in reshaping understanding of early human history - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

Bryn Celli Ddu is one of Wales’ most important Neolithic monuments. Excavations reveal its construction phases, burial use, and later alterations, shedding light on ritual activity and monument ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

More than a dozen human remains were found inside a 5,000-year-old tomb in Scotland. At least 14 sets of human remains were uncovered during an excavation on the Orkney Islands. Video shows ...

A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a person who lived as far back as 4800 BC. The remains are thought to belong to an older man from a Neolithic community, who may ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three women in a Neolithic tomb in France, with the positioning of two of the bodies suggesting they may have been ritualistically murdered by asphyxia or ...

Archaeological studies of a landscape in eastern Ireland have turned up the greatest number yet of ancient structures that remain rare in that country, and may cast light on the beliefs and burial ...

(CN) — Cannibalism, whether to stave off death by starvation or within the confines of ritual ceremony, is regarded as one of the most extreme human practices. And there are still many questions as to ...