A mass grave in Croatia holds dozens of skeletons, and genetic information reveals new clues about how they died.

Hallstatt is a charming village in Upper Austria, located along the shores of Lake Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut region. With a population of just over 900 people, the village is known for its scenic ...

Hundreds of people gathered at Stonehenge on Friday to mark the spring equinox. The ceremony celebrates the time of the year ...

Here's five spectacular standing stones adventures to enjoy around Scotland. Pack a picnic and a change of dry socks.

Charred hazelnut shells discovered at an archaeological site in Cornwall have pushed back the date for the arrival of the Neolithic period in the region by at least a century. New radiocarbon dating ...

Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay ...

More than mere ornament, jade has been cherished by the Chinese people for millennia. The ongoing exhibition Jade Culture and Chinese Civilization at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing ...

Multiple stakes-winning filly Lennilu, undefeated at Gulfstream Park and Group 2-placed last summer at Royal Ascot, will make her highly anticipated 3-year-old debut with an eye on a return trip to ...

Ancient fingerprints reveal children created some of the world’s earliest clay ornaments, offering new clues about early ...

Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the very concept of an inhospitable wasteland. Yet, hidden deep within the arid ...

Researchers identified 19 different types of beads, whose shapes are reminiscent of plants that were harvested by Natufians, ...

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...