Work on new wind turbines near Wolfenbüttel has brought to light a wide range of archaeological finds, including a group of Bronze Age jewellery and much older traces of settlement activity.

Archaeologists at the Sizewell C development on the Suffolk coast of England have uncovered a concentrated area of Roman industrial activity, shedding light on how the landscape was used nearly 2,000 years ago.

Stone tombs built by early farming groups in northern Scotland were used to bury closely related individuals, with new evidence pointing to family ties passed down through the male line.

Archaeologists working at Ifri n’Ammar in northeastern Morocco have identified rare ostrich bones that suggest humans processed the large bird during the Late Stone Age.

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.

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.

Bulgarian scientists have uncovered the remains of an Argentine Air Force aircraft that crashed in 1976 near Bernard Point on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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.

A recent study led by UCL researchers has discovered that Neanderthal genetic material inherited by humans has an impact on the shape of our noses.

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.