The monumental structures were of cult character and at the same time were probably places of assembly for the inhabitants of ...

Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written ...

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered the world's oldest dated rune stone, part of a larger 2,000-year-old slab. The stone ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological site of Dolní Věstonice in the Czech Republic in the 1920s, is considered ...

The World’s Oldest Drinking Straws Unearthed From a 5,000-Year-Old Burial Mound: ‘Not as Simple as They Seem...' Over a ...

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

In 2019, a family in the Spanish town of Carmona was renovating their home when they stumbled upon a 2,000-year-old tomb from ...

Gobeklitepe, a Neolithic archaeological site dating back to 9000 BC, is the oldest known human-made structure still standing today. That makes it twice as old as Stonehenge and pre-dates the invention ...

Fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world were found in an ancient Norwegian burial ground Inscriptions ... Radiocarbon dating of cremated human remains, charcoal, and artifacts from the ...

is considered the oldest surviving portrait of a person anywhere in the world, at 26,000 years old. Carved with stone tools out of mammoth ivory, the tiny head measures just 1.9 inches (4.8 ...

More than a quarter million beads found in a tomb with female skeletons were used to decorate the women's ceremonial dresses, suggesting they were powerful leaders five millennia ago.