The Lovers of Valdaro, an ancient Stone Age couple entwined in an eternal embrace, have been discovered in an archaeological ...

An extraordinary celestial phenomenon that occurs every 18.6 years is due to be witnessed this summer at Calanais Standing ...

As Tate stages the first major exhibition of the surrealist artist, Oliver Smith follows her to the ancient stone circles of Penwith ...

Pantelleria’s extreme conditions have shaped its centuries-old way of growing grapes—a method that is recognized by UNESCO.

Exactly 124 years ago Southend welcomed its first professional tattoo artist who set up shop in the town, eager to put his ink stamp on the bodies of men, women and possibly sometimes even children.

Though Stonehenge has been widely known for thousands of years, Germany's "Ringheiligtum Pömmelte," the Ring Sanctuary of ...

He made contact with local woman, Ellen Prendergast from Clara who was attached ... the assistant keeper of Natural History division. He placed it in the Neolithic era and said it was between 5,000 ...

Power in human societies is often viewed as hierarchical, meaning that it’s tiered and ranked. This view doesn’t fully ...

The museum is a symphony in concrete, so far beyond Soviet-style brutalism that it becomes almost neo-Neolithic, a cement Uluru in dull ... Hanoi scrambled to find safety. The Vietnamese Women's ...

The ritual of trekking to football grounds is comparable with Neolithic man making the long journey to Stonehenge for winter feasts. ‘Sacred locality was seemingly as important to our ...

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Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...