While the exact breed of dog is not yet known, it was a large and powerful 3- to 6-year-old male that stood about 20 inches (52 centimeters) tall. The dog had been placed in a leather bag weighted ...

Beneath the surface of the Baltic Sea lies a world long forgotten, a time capsule from the end of the last Ice Age. As archaeologists increasingly turn their attention to submerged landscapes, the ...

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world. Ongoing investigations by Turkish, British and other archaeologists in ...

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

Archaeologists have unearthed strange alien-looking statues with elongated heads from over 7,000 years ago in Kuwait, shedding more light on the origin and evolution of one of the oldest settlements ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have found a 12,000-year-old stone pillar with a carved human face—the oldest known example of ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A reconstruction of the environment that the Margaux woman once inhabited in what is now ...

Deep underground, thousands of years of silence are abruptly broken by a researcher singing. His voice seems to awaken the walls of the cavern as the intimate space comes alive with the sound of our ...

Around 7000 years ago, long knives, bracelets and other stone goods fashioned by skilled Parisian crafters were reaching people hundreds of kilometres away, via complex trade networks that are now ...