Learn how ancient DNA traced long-distance family ties across Europe’s megalithic tombs during the Neolithic period.

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A vast Neolithic structure that could date back to more than 5,000 ...

In a Scottish loch, archaeologists have uncovered an artificial island built by humans more than 5,000 years ago. This ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a ...

Researchers discovered 614 stone plaques and fragments at Vasagård West, an archaeological site on the Danish island of Bornholm. National Museum of Denmark Over the years, a variety of mysterious ...

English Heritage has revealed a million-pound reconstruction of an ancient dwelling at Stonehenge, giving the public their ...

Excavation section in the settlement mound of Aşıklı Höyük (Central Anatolia, Turkey). The numerous layers that formed during the millennia of settlement at the site are clearly visible. Modern ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...

A research team has made exceptional discoveries on prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic period, 7,000 years ago. The well organic preservation of the remains of the Cave of Los Murcielagos in ...

The Lake District’s Neolithic communities shaped the fells long before tourism and Romantic poetry. From early stone circles to carved boulders linked with axe‑making, these quiet sites offer a ...