Archaeologists in France have excavated a Neolithic site containing 63 burials and hundreds of structures and artifacts from a human occupation spanning roughly 4,000 years. The site in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Megaliths represent the earliest form of monumental stone architecture,” write the authors of the new study, and the Menga ...

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 in Malaysia spent more than a year investigating an area that will soon be underwater. Since their search began, more than 70,000 artifacts have been unearthed, including skeletal ...

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other side of the world. “We ...