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

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 ...

Excavation in a gravel quarry in central Switzerland revealed a 2,000-year-old Roman stone wall. The discovery reveals some ...

“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 ...

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

A DNA analysis of human remains found that two medieval men were buried in a peculiar position at a ritualistic site from the ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...