A complex structure for the production of tar, created by Neanderthals, has been discovered at the Vanguard Cave, in Gibraltar; the study in Quaternary Science Reviews
Egyptologists suspect Ptolemaic temple, a cliff sanctuary in Athribis as they uncovered a temple entrance indicating this may be the case
The Viking Faroe Islands colonizers were a group of male settlers from multiple Scandinavian populations, different from the Iceland colonizers
Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000–1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments
Peaches spread across North America through Indigenous political and social networks and thanks to land use practices
Visual experience in a Pompeian domestic space, at the House of Greek Epigrams: analysis using virtual reality-based eye tracking and GIS
The Neanderthals at Prado Vargas, in the Ojo Guareña Karst Complex, were the first fossil collectors, as they picked Cretaceous marine fossils 46,000 years ago
12,000-year old stones from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel may be spindle whorls, a very early evidence of wheel-like technology
Stones and structures throughout Germany dating to the Roman period are being documented in a long-term research project, the large-scale online edition “disiecta membra. Stone Architecture and Urbanism in Roman Germany”
DNA evidence rewrites histories for people buried in volcanic eruption in ancient Pompeii; the study has been published in Current Biology