60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity’s earliest geometric designs. Credit: Decembrini et al., PloS One (2026) More than 60,000 years...
A new study of the Late Mesolithic cemeteries at Skateholm I and II in southern Sweden has recovered microscopic traces...
Restoration work inside the Great Mosque of Homs in western Syria has brought renewed attention to one of the city’s...
More than 40,000 years ago, people in Europe carved repeated lines, dots, notches, and crosses into tools and small sculptures....
Archaeologists at Gomolava in northern Serbia have documented one of the largest prehistoric mass killings in Europe. Inside a shallow...
Archaeologists working at Qubbet el Hawa in Aswan have uncovered a new group of rock-cut tombs dating to the Old...
A team of neonatologists and obstetricians has proposed a new explanation for the disappearance of Neanderthals. In a study published...
Archaeologists at El Caño Archaeological Park in Panama have unearthed a tomb more than 1,000 years old filled with gold...
Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from four elite burials in the Ulitau region of central Kazakhstan and traced their ancestry...
Around 9,000 years ago, communities in Southwest Asia began to settle in permanent villages. People shifted from hunting and gathering...
