Prehistoric plaque may provide link with Stonehenge Archaeological director Mike Emery believes new evidence shows a direct link between his dig south of Chester and Stonehenge. His team has uncovered a 4,500 year-old limestone plaque at the...

Did a comet explode over North America 12,000 years ago? Roughly 12,900 years ago, massive global cooling kicked in abruptly, along with the end of the line for some 35 different mammal species, including the mammoth, as well as the...

Prehistoric artifacts found in Arizona A mysterious 'circle stone' is puzzling archaeologists who unearthed it with an ancient village in Arizona (USA). "You don't find little pieces of rock art like that very often," archaeologist...

Iran's Burnt City yields ancient graves The 12th phase of Burnt City archeological excavations in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province has yielded 12 ancient graves. A brick-walled quadrangular grave was found at the site, which is believed...

Competition led to Neanderthal extinction, study shows In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change....

Pollen grain study yields new picture of Ice Age According to a new doctoral dissertation at Stockholm University in Sweden, based on analyses of deposits of pollen grains, it is possible that all of Sweden was virtually free of...

Ancient burial site uncovered in Dorset More than a dozen skeletons thought to be thousands of years old, have been found by Oxford archaeologists working at an ancient burial site in Dorset (England). Excavations are taking...

Traces of an ancient civilization found in Bulgaria The archeological excavations at the prehistoric tomb in the village of Yunatsite, Pazardzhik district (Bulgaria), give pleasant surprises every year to specialists working there, the leader of the team of...

Celtic village discovered in Poland A 3rd to 2nd century BCE Celtic village was discovered four miles east of Krakow (Poland). Archaeologists from the Krakow Highway Exploration Team (Krakowski Zespol do Badan Autostrad) had been...

European Neanderthals had ginger hair and freckles The gene known as MC1R suggests the Neanderthals had fair skin and even freckles like redheads. In a major breakthrough, Spanish scientists have discovered the blood group and two other...

Macedonia archeologists uncover 4,000 year old writing Uncovered are the first traces of the old Macedonian language in the country, says Dr. Dushko Aleksovski, paleolinguistics professor and honorary president of the World Rock Art Academy. "This is...

Before corn, wild lilies were on ancient menu Long before humans in North America grew corn and beans and wheat, they were harvesting and cooking the bulbs of lilies, wild onions and other plants, roasting them for days...

Prehistoric artifacts unearthed in Oklahoma Archaeologists recently unearthed about 16,000 stone artifacts at a site for a new Delaware County bridge (Oklahoma, USA), offering scientists clues to how a prehistoric culture lived, a scientist said....

Ancient graves found accidentally in Turkey Two ancient graves, dating back to the 7th century BCE, have been uncovered during construction of a cesspool at the house of Mehmet Çoban in the Damlıboğaz village of Muğla's...

DNA tracks ancient Alaskan's descendants An ancient mariner who died 10,000 years ago probably doesn't have any close relatives left in Alaska (USA). But some of them migrated south and their descendents can be found...