Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought ...

An exciting and unique find from over 5,000 years ago was uncovered during the construction of a railroad. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a stone-paved cellar dating back to the Stone Age ...

Pupils have stepped back in time to experience life in the ancient world. Year 3 pupils from Meadow Park Academy in Reading visited Butser Ancient Farm, an open-air experimental archaeology museum in ...

Excavations at Thirumalapuram reveal Iron Age culture near Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, with unique artefacts unearthed.

An expansive grave site used by different cultures over the course of hundreds of years has been excavated in Minden-Lübbecke, a district of northwestern Germany near Hanover. The discovery came at ...

To understand the coming of iron technology in West Africa requires more than site-specific data based on an analytical/mechanical paradigm. Holl argues that a systems approach, which looks beyond the ...

BAY OF AARHUS, Denmark (AP) — Below the dark blue waters of the Bay of Aarhus in northern Denmark, archaeologists search for coastal settlements swallowed by rising sea levels more than 8,500 years ...