When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

A new drone survey has revealed that a 3000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains is almost “40 times larger” than previously thought, reshaping our understanding of Bronze Age settlements in ...

New Tel Aviv University research suggests prehistoric humans in Israel didn't create cave paintings because large animals had ...

Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black ...

Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously ...

Documenting migrations by analysing changes in DNA has proven difficult due to the presence of historical groups of genetically similar people. For the latest study, however, researchers employed a ...

Researchers say modern humans in the area did not see the ritualistic purpose of painting on cave walls, unlike their ...

The discovery of a well-preserved sixth century sword by University of Central Lancashire archaeologists will feature on the ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, researchers suggest that prehistoric humans in the Levant did not create cave paintings because the primary subjects of ...

More archeological excavation is needed to clarify exactly what this pit was used for. “Roman society was full of ...

New research offers an explanation for why the practice prevalent in prehistoric Western Europe didn't occur in the Eastern Mediterranean.