The flute unearthed from an important Neolithic settlement in Iran shows how early humans progressed from their primitive ...

Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the ...

Ditch steel, glass, and reinforced concrete 6,000 years ago, Neolithic engineers in southern Spain were already accomplishing ...

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

With their potent blend of wild looks and mystery, Britain’s ancient sites have an enduring magnetism — and there are far more of them than you might imagine.

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreTwo hills form the 37 ha site on the Southern Anatolian Plateau. The taller eastern mound contains eighteen levels of Neolithic occupation between 7400 bc and 6200 bc, ...

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

Reports of Neolithic Irish god-kings, descended through an incest-practicing social elite, are lacking in evidence, say a ...

On the Anatolian plains, more than ten thousand years ago, one of humanity’s first major farming communities flourished, ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early ...