A cave high in the eastern Pyrenees is reshaping ideas about how prehistoric people used mountain landscapes. New excavations suggest that, far from passing through, communities returned repeatedly to the site over thousands of years—likely to work copper-rich minerals.

Archaeologists in Poland have identified traces of fermented alcohol in pottery dating back around 4,500 years, the oldest evidence of its kind yet found in the country’s north-east.

A new study by researchers at the University of Tsukuba is shedding light on how centuries-old construction in Japan’s mountains may still be influencing landslide risks today.

A new international study is challenging long-held ideas about what happened in Central Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

A new genetic study has revealed striking details about the practice of human sacrifice in early Korean society, suggesting that those buried alongside elites were not outsiders, but often part of the same extended communities.

Archaeologists in north-western Poland have overturned a long-standing local legend after uncovering the remains of a German soldier in a forest near the small West Pomeranian settlement of Zdanów, historically known as Zankhof.

Archaeologists from the Berlin State Office for Monument Protection have uncovered a tomb during renovation works at the historic Buch Castle Church.

Researchers in the UK say they have reconstructed 42 missing pages from a major early Christian manuscript, using imaging and dating techniques to reveal text unseen for centuries.

Work beneath Frombork Cathedral has brought to light a collection of burial items linked to Warmian canons, including silk garments, cushions and a group of rarely seen chalices.

A remarkable discovery in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology has brought to light thirty previously unknown verses by Empedocles, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the work of one of ancient Greece’s most enigmatic thinkers.

A page long believed to be missing from the famed Archimedes Palimpsest has been rediscovered at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France, offering scholars new opportunities to study one of antiquity’s most important mathematical manuscripts.

A heavily corroded 19th-century pocket revolver believed to be a British Bulldog has been discovered during a metal-detecting survey in a forest near Kalisz in western Poland.

Researchers have confirmed that human remains found in Stajnia Cave in Poland belong to Neanderthals, based on new analysis of teeth and ancient DNA.

A study, led by Dr. Marina Lozano of IPHES-CERCA, has found dental remains belonging to three Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in Abreda Cave.

Researchers suggests that early humans were hunting, skinning, and eating beavers around 400,000-years-ago.

A study conducted by CNRS has determined who the first modern humans to settle in Europe were.

Archaeologists from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University have discovered a wooden structure dating from at least 476,000-years-ago, the earliest known example to date.

A study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE has provided evidence to date the age and origin of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France.

Archaeologists conducting excavations in the Coves del Toll de Moià have uncovered evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism from more than 52,000-years-ago.

According to a recent study, the portrayal of predatory dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex in movies such as Jurassic Park, with permanently exposed teeth, may not be accurate. Instead, it is believed that these dinosaurs had scaly, lizard-like lips that covered and sealed their mouths.

Palaeontologists have found the remains of an Ichthyosaur on the island of Spitsbergen, located in the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway.

One of Turkey’s most impressive geological wonders is Pamukkale (meaning "cotton castle"), renowned for its sinter terraced formations created by calcite-rich springs.

Sapphires are among the most precious gems, yet they consist solely of chemically “contaminated” aluminum oxide, or corundum.

Archaeologists have found traces of a climate disaster 1500-years-ago that might have inspired the legend of Ragnarök from Norse mythology.

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.

Archaeologists have found that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

The Qinngua Valley, also known as Paradisdalen (meaning “paradise valley”) is a unique biome in southern Greenland and contains the island’s only natural forest zone.

A study by the University of York has revealed that a tsunami wiped out prehistoric communities living in Northumberland, England, causing wide-scale depopulation across the region.

Scientists have established a connection between the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth and the oldest known human settlements in Alaska.

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.

A study published in the journal Prehistory Works, indicates that two objects sampled from the Villena Treasure were smithed using meteoric iron.

In a study of the Earth’s mantle, scientists have identified two compositionally distinct continent-sized anomalies which could be traces of a protoplanet which impacted with Earth during its early formation.

According to the giant-impact hypothesis (also known as the Theia Impact), the moon was formed when a giant object such as a protoplanet crashed into the Earth when the solar system was still young.