The Rök runestone, erected in Östergötland around 800 CE, is the world’s most famous runestone from the Viking Age, but has also proven to be one of the most difficult to interpret
In the early 2000s, the fossil skeletons of two comparatively small T. rex were collected from Carter County, Montana, by Burpee Museum of Natural History
A year-long programme of events marking the 850th anniversary of one of the most shocking crimes in European history: the murder of Thomas Becket
Archaeologists found the two beehive-shaped tombs in Pylos, Greece, while investigating the area around the grave of the “Griffin Warrior”
The ancient Romans relied on long-distance timber trading to construct their empire, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE
The Neo-Assyrian Empire collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital, Nineveh, in 612 B.C.E.
Recent archaeological investigations in the Tollense Valley have unearthed a collection of 31 unusual objects of a Bronze Age warrior who died on the battlefield 3,300 years ago
A 8,000 year old structure has been discovered, next to what is believed to be the oldest boat building site in the world on the Isle of Wight
Some of the deceased at the Levänluhta water burial site were accompanied by arm rings and necklaces made out of copper alloy, bronze or brass
First evidence that giant ostrich-like birds once roamed Europe comes from the Taurida Cave in Crimea; that was discovered only the last summer
Neanderthals living in Europe from about 55 to 40 thousand years ago traveled away from their caves to collect resin from pine trees. They then used that sticky substance to glue stone tools to handles made out of wood or bone
Early Neandertals in Western Europe were more closely related to the last Neandertals who lived in the same region as much as 80,000 years later, than they were to contemporaneous Neandertals living in Siberia
The archaeological site of ‘Ein Qashish in northern Israel was a place of repeated Neanderthal occupation and use during the Middle Paleolithic
German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age palace in Kemune, on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
A new research reveals aspects of the drinking and dietary habits of the Celts who lived in Central Europe in the first millennium BCE
During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, SW Finland: the deceased were buried in a lake
On the land where Cordoba is located in the 21st century, two cities coexisted in the past, each on a hill: an Iberian and a Roman one
Researchers have studied the evidence of prehistoric societies in the Neolithic Period in the Iberian Peninsula from the perspective of gender
A meta-analysis of dietary information demonstrates that pastoralists spread domesticated crops across the steppe through their trade and social networks
A grape variety still used in wine production in France today can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have discovered.
