An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site.
The rock looks a lot like, uh, a rock, but it may be a 130,000-year-old sculpture.
The founding father's grandnephews were identified from fragmentary bones in a rural family cemetery.
Live ordnance buried and forgotten after past conflicts may be become more sensitive to impacts as they age.
Petroglyphs were incised in rock near footprints of theropods, sauropods, and ornithopods.
A 400-year-old scrap of metal is a thigh protector that was likely tossed by European colonists.
Neanderthals mixed pitch and ochre to make grips for blades.
Estimated to be over 10,000 years old, the kilometer-long wall was likely used for hunting.
Before he was bludgeoned to death and left in a bog, Vittrup Man was a Stone Age forager who became a farmer.
Iron from space was used to forge some of the ancient Iberian hoard.
The animal’s life story was locked away in the chemical elements found in its tusk.
Lidar scans revealed thousands of human-made structures beneath the forest canopy.
From Bronze Age brain surgery to Neanderthal cave etchings, here's what we learned about the human story this year.
A group of horse-riding warriors kept some gruesome battle trophies.
The 6,500-year-old cemetery may be five times larger than assumed, resetting our notions of northern prehistoric life.
A new aerial tour by Flyover Zone lets you visit the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus, and more.
The damaged cranium of a Pierolapithecus has been put together virtually and compared with hominids past and present.
Mount Vesuvius buried Herculaneum in volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. Modern tech is revealing lost texts from the town.
Some 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals were hunting lions in Europe, scientists say.
Two stones honor Thyra, mother of Harald Bluetooth, namesake of the modern technology.
