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 ...

The Czech Republic is the location where numerous Neolithic burial mounds more than 5,000 years old have been discovered beneath cultivated fields. Experts already knew these burial mounds existed, ...

The Saudi Heritage Commission, one of 11 sector-specific commissions under the Ministry of Culture, announced findings ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

An ancient kitchen discovered in Turkey's Karahan Tepe offers a glimpse into prehistoric cooking and daily life.

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

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Once again, claims that certain gender roles are historically near-universal run into evidence of something much more ...

An equinox is where the length of the day and night are almost equal in length.

The burial sites weren’t visible to the human eye, but a suite of technological tools found subtle differences in Czech ...

Using the remains of a warp-weighted loom uncovered at the Cabezo Redondo archeological site in Spain, a team of ...

Pets play an important role in many people’s lives. In the UK, six out of ten households have at least one pet, dogs being our most common companions (assuming we don’t count fish individually). But ...