A massive 5,000-year-old grave from the Copper Age has sparked archaeological excavations and studies ...

Liu Bin, former Zhejiang University professor who discovered the Liangzhu ruins, admits taking bribes and embezzlement.

Archaeologists at the Stăuceni-Holm archaeological site in northeastern Romania uncovered a large prehistoric building ...

Human remains found near a missing woman's home in Arizona are identified as ancient, shifting the focus from a criminal ...

A skeleton unearthed miles from where Nancy Guthrie was allegedly abducted is believed to be up to 1,000 years old, an ...

Hidden deep within the sandstone plateaus of Tassili n'Ajjer, the central Sahara Desert holds one of humanity’s oldest surviving art galleries. Across cliffs, caves, and rock shelters, prehistoric ...

A new study of 250,000-year-old fossil teeth from France suggests climate shifts repeatedly isolated and reconnected ...

However, groundbreaking ancient DNA analysis has revealed that these complex social structures were actually widespread in Central Europe more than 5,000 years ago. An international team of ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences exploring the complex ...

Our ancestors lived alongside Neanderthals for nearly 200,000 years, often interbreeding with them. But could they understand ...

A beach walk in Norfolk led to the discovery of a 780,000-year-old hand axe, rewriting early human history and settlement ...

Nestled deep in a Cardiff suburb, surrounded by houses, is one of the most important, yet little understood, prehistoric ...