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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The archaeologists that found the stone-paved chamber, located inside a hilltop fort in Scotland, still aren’t sure exactly ...

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 ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

In the late 1970s, a mysterious object dating back to the Early Stone Age was unearthed in Germany. Initially thought to be an oil lamp, the item was later studied in detail by researchers from Aarhus ...