In 2020, a team of 18 international researchers—led by longtime Stonehenge expert Vince Gaffney—announced that they’d found two arcs of circular pits encompassing about 1.16 square miles surrounding ...

Neolithic people seem to have understood sophisticated concepts in science, such as physics and geology, using this knowledge to construct a megalithic monument in southern Spain. Called the Menga ...

In the dark waters of a remote Scottish loch, archaeologists have made a discovery that reshapes our understanding of prehistoric engineering. Using innovative shallow-water photogrammetry, ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a mystery hidden structure beneath an ancient artificial island in a Scots loch. The island in ...

Evidence suggests that the settlement was spread across 15 acres. Archaeologists in France have uncovered a preserved settlement while investigating an area ahead of it being turned into a gravel pit.

When one of his colleagues blew on a horn inside the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, an ancient, underground burial complex on the Mediterranean island of Malta, archaeologist Fernando Coimbra felt the sound ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...