Archaeologists have revealed a "unique" prehistoric burial featuring the remains of a child whose skeleton displays evidence of unusual marks on its bones. The child's remains were discovered at an ...

A reconstruction of the occurrence of plague in a large family tree from Neolithic Sweden indicates that 12 of 38 family members were infected in three separate waves — a potential explanation for a ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a 9,500-year-old ancient settlement at Sırçalıtepe, revealing structures, artifacts, and clues to one of Anatolia’s earliest communities. The site offers new ...