On the sheer limestone face of the Rock of Gibraltar, a hidden chamber has been sealed off from the outside world for roughly 40,000 years. When archaeologists finally broke through the sand and rock ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

Mammoth Cave National Park, home to the world’s longest known cave system, stretches for more than 680 kilometres, and ...

The remains of 46 types of mammals, fish and birds, dating back more than 10,000 years have been found in a cave in northern Norway providing the oldest example of an animal community living in the ...

Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

Researchers excavated the cave site in 2021 and 2022. During the 1990s, Norway experienced an increase in industrial mining projects. Many of these required workers to build extensive tunnel systems ...