The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

Human statues found hidden in the wall of Gobeklitepe: a 12,000-year-old discovery that reopens the mystery of the world's ...

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Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

Archaeologists excavating a remote island cave have found unexpected evidence that ancient humans hunted with partially ...

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Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

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Excavations of Bronze Age “warrior graves” throughout Europe have nearly always led to the recovery of copper alloy Bronze Age daggers. However, their function has been poorly understood. It has long ...

A recent study has revealed new insights into Stone Age life and death, showing that stone tools were just as likely to be buried with women and children as with men. Breaking millennia-old ...