Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Archaeologists working in Morocco’s Tangier Peninsula have uncovered a lush and previously underappreciated prehistoric landscape filled with ancient cemeteries, rock art, and standing stones that together present a complex picture of ritual life in the area between 3000 and 500…
A 5,500-year-old megalithic tomb has been brought back to life in the heart of Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt region. Located in the forest near Haldensleben, the Küsterberg tomb—one of Central Europe’s most prominent Neolithic burial monuments—was officially inaugurated on April 27, 2025,…
Recent research is rattling established theories about Ireland’s Neolithic tombs. What were once thought to be royal burial sites are now reported to be places where communities congregated, not dynasties. The study, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, used ancient…
Erratic boulders are scattered across northern Poland, transported by glaciers from far-off lands. Although the stones are now accounted for by science as the final remnants of ancient glaciation, in local folklore, they have always possessed their own dramatic explanation,…
Recent archaeological research has revealed that the Flagstones monument near Dorchester, Dorset, is the earliest known circular enclosure in Britain. The results of advanced radiocarbon dating have placed it around two centuries older than previously estimated. Published in Antiquity by…
Mysterious earth rings emerge from the hills onto the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, in the suburb of Sunbury; they bear the secrets of hundreds of years in their silent rings. These incredible earthworks were created by the Aboriginal Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung…
Rujm el-Hiri is a mysterious megalithic monument in the Golan Heights known as the “Wheel of Ghosts” or the “Stonehenge of the East.” Long believed to be a kind of astronomical observatory, new research published in the journal Remote Sensing has put…
Recent findings reveal that Stonehenge, the iconic Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain, may have been constructed as a symbol of unity among Britain’s early farming communities. This conclusion arises from research conducted by teams from University College London (UCL) and…
Recent archaeological findings reveal that “King Arthur’s Hall,” a mysterious stone enclosure on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor, dates back over 5,000 years, to the Neolithic period, making it one of England’s oldest structures and predating the legendary King Arthur by millennia.…
A recent study published in Science Advances has unveiled that the Menga Dolmen, a 6,000-year-old megalithic burial mound in southern Spain, was constructed using “advanced engineering” techniques. Built between 3800 and 3600 BCE, this Neolithic monument is a single-chamber tomb,…
