These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Two medieval men, buried face down and hundreds of years apart, have been discovered in a Neolithic monument in southern ...

A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

Is a 10,000-year-old civilisation hidden beneath the soil of Odisha? Investigations are underway at the Bhimmandali mountains ...

The Romans knew their way around Europe. They also knew how to build with a view. A 2,000-year-old stone wall unearthed in a ...

“The pronounced increase in biface knapping skill evident from around half a million years ago in Britain may reflect a ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

An Austrian winemaker’s quiet renovation project took a stunning turn when the earth beneath him revealed a hidden secret.

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...