The hills of South Moravia have yielded thousands of Stone Age artifacts over decades of excavation, most of them anonymous ...

Denmark has a lot of Viking history, and you can see it in many places. Old forts, rune stones, and burial mounds tell stories of warriors, leaders, a.

Chennai: Archaeology students from the University of Madras have found a new Stone Age tool-making site near Vellore. Based ...

The medieval tunnel was dug into loess and cut directly through a trapezoidal ditch associated with the Baalberge culture (4th millennium BC), a landscape already reused for burials in later ...

An ancient quarry site in Newton County offers evidence that humans removed chert for stone tools, spear points and arrow points from bedrock centuries earlier than archaeologists ...

Weighing 6.5 tons and transported to Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago, a new study pegs the Altar Stone's origin to Scotland ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

Archaeologists have identified the oldest known example of sewn hide, a small fragment of elk hide meticulously stitched with twisted fiber, dating back approximately 12,400 years. Found within Cougar ...

When people picture the ancient world, they often imagine ruins behind museum glass. But many of the world’s oldest cities are still alive, loud, and surprisingly ordinary. Streets mapped out ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

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Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate, 400-year Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...