More than a hundred graves with several mounds shaped like ships were discovered in a Viking Age cemetery in southwestern ...

Advanced analysis of prehistoric cave art has revealed new insights into the fishing practices of Paleolithic societies.

Archaeologists uncovered a 150,000-year-old shelter in Tajikistan, offering new insights into human evolution.

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bubonic and septicemic forms — mainly infecting the lymph nodes and ...

For 60,000 years, the tribes of the Andaman Islands have lived undisturbed – but now their way of life is under threat ...

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age ...

Nearly 16,000-year-old portrayals of fish surrounded by nets had evaded detection until a new technique took magnification to a new level.

Ship-shaped graves have been identified at the site, which came to light during investigations of an earlier Stone Age ...

‘Operating in the Stone Age’: NHS staff’s daily struggle with outdated tech on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘Operating in ...

Over the next three decades, digging at Göbekli Tepe uncovered a Neolithic feasting site. In its first centuries, Stone Age ...

Ancient stone goods found across France may have been made by skilled craftspeople in what is now Paris, who traded along ...

It was supposed to be a routine Stone Age settlement excavation to clear a path for a new roundabout and water pipes near Tvååker in southern Sweden. It turned into so much more, as archaeologists ...