The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

This documentary examines how Stone Age weapons inflicted extreme physical damage at close range. Archaeological evidence shows shattered bones, embedded stone points, and blunt-force trauma ...

The Sein Island submerged stone structures include a football-field-long granite wall off Brittany that dates back more than ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

From the storied shores of Scandinavia to the ancient cities of the Mediterranean, we've picked out Europe's 29 most ...

The tumulus (or burial mound) now stands about 26 feet (8 meters) above a natural hillock and more than 100 ft (30 m) above ...

Mammoth bones dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years discovered in a basement in Lower Austria, a key find in a century.

The box was excavated from a Roman-era grave in England. It was found among a trove of artifacts spanning roughly 8,000 years ...

Built by the earliest Stone Age farmers, who tilled the soil 6,000 years ago, the “monumental” timber building was described as a find of international significance. No buildi ...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

Far off the coast of Brittany, a line of stone blocks lies hidden beneath the Atlantic, preserved where dry land once met the ...