The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...

As the subway line continues onward past the Colosseum, it will run underneath more of the world’s most important cultural ...

Archaeologists uncover a 2,500-year-old Iron Age site in Afghanistan, revealing stone structures, a drikning vessel and early ...

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...

A 13,000‑year‑old tool from a cave in central Germany has turned out to be far more than a simple piece of Paleolithic gear. Under a microscope, its surface revealed a vivid blue that should not have ...

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...

More than 10,000 years ago, a teenage girl in present-day Estonia put a piece of birch tar in her mouth, chewed it, and spit it out. Now, researchers in Estonia are using the unassuming prehistoric ...

Stone is “making a comeback” in the building industry after years of being “forgotten”, said the BBC. With clear benefits to the environment, such as a lower carbon footprint than other traditional ...

Scientists conducting a new analysis of ancient Stone Age artifacts in the Americas and Asia believe they have found evidence that the First Americans traveled from East Asia along the coast over ...

Ten carved stones discovered in England a few years ago have been dated back to the last ice age. Researchers discovered the ten ice age artworks between 2014 and 2018 at an ancient hearth at Les ...

Archaeologists in eastern Norway have made a remarkable discovery that illuminates the sophisticated craftsmanship of our Stone Age ancestors. During an excavation in Horten, where forest land will ...