Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about the roles of women and children in Stone Age societies. Analysis of remains ...

A road project in central Scotland has revealed one of the country’s most intriguing archaeological finds in decades: an ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

The artifacts are now on view in Ankara, in an exhibition that also features a repatriated statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. This large stone vessel that archaeologists excavated at Karahan ...

Archaeologists discovered evidence of an ancient cult while excavating an area in northern Israel, officials said.

Around 7000 years ago, long knives, bracelets and other stone goods fashioned by skilled Parisian crafters were reaching people hundreds of kilometres away, via complex trade networks that are now ...

Excavation at Dwaalhoek has uncovered ancient treasures that have revealed ancient San and farmer interactions.

At 21 meters of depth, in the turbid waters of the Baltic Sea, a secret from the Stone Age was hidden: the Blinkerwall, an ...

It was inevitable that the Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo would accompany its much-delayed opening with demands for the ...