The 5,000-year-old mystery of Stonehenge may have finally been solved with the help of a few tiny grains of sand.

Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...

Bottomless stone bowl, plate, and batons, and small bowl containing animal figurines with heads in limestone rings (left) and stone animal figurines (right) Since the first stone structures were ...

In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by the ice mummy Ötzi by more than two millennia, shedding new light on ...

In 2020, archaeologists in the United Kingdom made a surprising discovery. At Durrington Walls, a large Neolithic henge not far from Stonehenge, they found more than a dozen large, deep pits buried ...

New research from the University of St Andrews, as part of a team led by the University of Bradford, has confirmed the details of a massive, neolithic pit structure recently discovered during a ...

Turkey reveals some 30 new Neolithic artefacts Gobeklitepe, Karahantepe reshaping understanding of prehistory Main site expected to attract 800,000 visitors this year SANLIURFA, Turkey, Nov 26 ...

By Ceyda Caglayan SANLIURFA, Turkey (Reuters) -Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing ...

The 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey is often called the “zero point of history”, said The Archaeologist. But recent excavations at the nearby Mendik Tepe site suggest it dates back even ...

Archaeologists from the National Trust, Southampton and Leicester Universities, and Allen Environmental Archaeology are trying to find out where the people who built the world-famous Avebury Stone ...

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