A Neolithic monument with two Islamic burials that took into account the design of the dolmen reveals how the ancient ...

DNA reveals burials inside one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments, showing Spain’s Menga dolmen stayed sacred for ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered a Neolithic burial ground containing human and animal remains and the remnants of a chariot that may have been part of an ancient ritual. The excavation site ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered a "surprisingly complex" ancient burial system, complete with animal sacrifices, during a dig in central Germany. The excavation site is near Magdeburg, roughly ...

A Neolithic settlement from thousands of years ago was discovered in the south of France. Jean-Baptiste Jamin National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Once the landscape of countless ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. But a new analysis of DNA from 55 skeletons found in these 5,000-year-old graves suggests that the tombs were ...

Archaeologists have found early evidence of prehistoric body piercing in human burials dated to around 11,000 years ago. In a study recently published in the journal Antiquity, a team of researchers ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that could change our understanding of Neolithic Britain. The Flagstones burial site, located in Dorset, England, has been re-dated to approximately 3,200 BC ...

There had always been something slightly curious about the terrain of the Eulenberg industrial area outside Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt. There’s a small hill, not particularly high, but ...

A neolithic burial chamber in Carnac, France (Mark Cartwright/Creative Commons) (CN) — Early humans experienced a rapid population collapse across large parts of Europe five thousand years ago, the ...

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