While snooping around one of the world’s most remarkable archaeological sites, researchers peeled away layers of dusty earth ...

Ancient crafted human bones found in China suggest ritual use and shifting burial customs during the Liangzhu culture's ...

Archaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material ...

A team of archaeologists believes that three impressively sized circular ditch structures from around 4500 B.C.E.—which the team discovered in what is now southeastern Austria —are evidence of some of ...

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 ...

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming ...

Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert show nomads lived there thousands of years ago.

Teeth reveal the story of how humans in the Neolithic villages of Syria lived, worked, and raised families thousands of years ago.

An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding practices that demonstrate how the first high mountain ...

A newly discovered structure in France could be thousands of years old—and its odd shape is one of a kind, archaeologists say. Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive ...

Surrounded by the Cyclopean walls, the ancient Greek city of Tiryns predated Mycenae and later became part of the Mycenaean ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...