The term ‘menhir’ is derived from the Brittonic “ maen ” meaning “stone”, and “ hîr ” meaning “long”, and entered the ...
The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...
Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light ...
More than 7,000 years ago, the Vardar-Morava River corridor led early farmers from the far reaches of modern-day Serbia into ...
As well as sharing similarities with other Danish woodhenges, there is also a striking parity with a known woodhenge in ...
"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...
Archaeologists have uncovered the first-ever Bronze Age settlement in North Africa’s Maghreb region, proving that local ...
Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.
Copper stands at the center of many of humanity’s greatest modern challenges as a critical mineral needed to power renewable ...
A farmer in the Polish village of Bartosze was recently clearing a path through his pasture when he suddenly happened upon an ...
Rea uncovered numerous burial urns, iron weapons, bronze artefacts, and gold ornaments, indicating a more complex and advanced culture extending from the Iron Age to the Early Historic period than ...
The necklace was dated to the Bronze Age, officials said ... have been worn by someone in the Lusatian culture, or during the early days of the West Baltic Kurgan culture, according to the ...