A multidisciplinary research team led by the Archaeometry research group of the University of Tübingen and the GEA research group of the University of Granada made a surprising discovery in the ...

Credit: Tas Tepeler. While shooting a documentary at Göbeklitepe, I encountered strikingly different historical ...

The hillsides surrounding the Malampuzha Dam in Palakkad have long been known for their quiet slopes and scattered mounds that merge gently with the reservoir’s edge. Yet when surveyors began ...

New research conducted at the UNESCO World Heritage listed 'Plain of Jars' in Laos has established the stone jars were likely placed in their final resting position from as early as 1240 to 660 BCE.

Ordinarily, it is the task of archaeologists to painstakingly sift through the ground in pursuit of the past. A recent project in central Germany, however, has done something altogether different.

Two people buried more than 140 miles (225 kilometers) apart in Neolithic Germany turned out to be father and son, despite living in a period imagined as isolated and local. One was buried at a site ...

The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...

Ireland’s megalithic tombs might not have been burial grounds for elite dynasties, as some thought, but rather places of community bonding. In 2020, researchers found genetic links among dozens of ...

The construction of complex megalithic tombs was a hallmark of the Neolithic period in Europe, yet this practice seems to have ceased rather abruptly at the end of the fourth millennium BCE. Numerous ...

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Archaeologists have discovered more than 500 standing stones on a land that was earmarked for avocado plantation in southern Spain, according to reports. Experts believe it is one of the world’s ...