Scientists are combining anthropology with cutting-edge AI to create an educational video game about life in Stone Age Europe.

A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

A rarely-visited World Heritage Site in Malawi has received a boost to its conservation and tourism potential.

Is it possible for us to understand the meaning behind prehistoric rock art? In this video, ancient historian Tristan ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally,” the Spotify slide warns, before revealing each user’s calculated listening age. How exactly did Spotify land on that number, though? Marc Hazan, ...

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 ...

Deep underground, thousands of years of silence are abruptly broken by a researcher singing. His voice seems to awaken the walls of the cavern as the intimate space comes alive with the sound of our ...

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 ...

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Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Marbella, Spain, unearthing a stone with ancient engravings on its face that could rewrite the history of prehistoric art. The find suggests that ...