4,000-year-old Stonehenge of the Netherlands reveals its secrets
Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old sanctuary in the Netherlands that marks the solstices and equinoxes, and was also used as a burial ground.
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Hidden details in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings revealed by chemical imaging
The technique called portable X-ray fluorescence has helped Egyptologists identify changes and adjustments to details of tomb decoration that are invisible to the human eye.
Unusual 7,000-year-old prehistoric clay figurine unearthed at Battifratta Cave, Lazio
The figurine dates to the Neolithic period, when ancient people first started to develop farming communities in Italy.
1,100-year-old breastplate to ward off evil may contain the oldest Cyrillic writing ever found
Researchers claim an inscription on a 1,100-year-old breastplate discovered in a ruined fortress in Bulgaria is one of the earliest known examples of Cyrillic text.
Archaeologists shed light on the lives of Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Britain
A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age.
2,300-year-old scissors and a ‘folded’ sword discovered in a Celtic cremation tomb in Germany
Archaeologists discovered a folded sword, scissors, and other relics at a Celtic cremation burial in Germany.
Secrets of the Pharaohs: Archaeologists unearth stunning royal tomb in Luxor, Egypt
Investigators suspect that the tomb belongs to a royal wife or to a princess of the Tuthmose lineage.
Denny, a mysterious child from 90,000 years ago, whose parents were two different human species
Meet Denny, the first known human hybrid, a 13-year-old girl born to a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
Magnificent Neolithic shell dragon unearthed in Inner Mongolia
The Hongshan Culture, which flourished in Northeast China's West Liao River Basin, continues to captivate archaeologists and historians, shedding light on the rich and complex history of ancient China.
Extinct human relative buried their dead 100,000 years before modern humans did, study claims
Homo naledi, an extinct human relative with one-third the brain size of ours, buried and may have memorialized their dead, controversial research suggests.
