Nestled in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, Skara Brae is a prehistoric village that has intrigued archaeologists and ...

If there were such a thing as a time machine that we could use to journey 5,000 years into the past, we would find a very different world to the ...

A comprehensive analysis of thousands of homes from the last 10,000 years reveals the distribution of wealth in ancient times ...

Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...

A 7,275-year-old wooden well discovered in the Czech Republic may be the oldest known wooden structure still in existence, ...

Prof R K Ganjoo Ignoring the stray findings of stone age culture in the valley, the convincing and well-studied evidences of ...

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

Found at the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya, these mummies, the remains of female herders, belong to a population that defies the genetic expectations researchers had based on the region’s history.

At first, it was just a cluster of bone plates peeking from the shallow Siberian soil. In the summer of 2004, during a modest archaeological survey in the Kerdugen area of Russia’s Sakha ...

This knife was discovered at a settlement site associated with the Pfyn culture. During the Neolithic period (4300 to 3500 ...

The prehistoric settlement of Wangen-Hinterhorn and its pile dwellings were first identified in the shallow water zone along Lake Constance by a farmer in 1856, but extensive excavations by ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic ... animal husbandry, while forests expanded and evidence for cereals reduced. This is the ...