Archaeologists working ahead of a parking lot in the Sardinian village of Loculi have exposed a 700-square-metre site with remains from the Bronze Age to post-medieval times. Among them is a fragment ...

Excavators at Troy have recovered a bone flute from around 800 BC, which they describe as the first musical instrument found at the site in more than 160 years of digging. The head of a human-shaped ...

Researchers at Lund University have found that the leftovers of a virus that swept through chimpanzees millions of years ago silenced a gene that humans keep active while the brain forms. When the ...

To measure a horse painted 37,000 years ago, you would normally walk up to the wall. At Chauvet that is impossible. The cave floor still holds footprints tens of thousands of years old, and nobody is ...

When a company plans a business park, the last thing it expects to find underground is a cemetery. That is what happened in 2024 on St.-Florian-Straße in Senden, a town of about 23,700 people in the ...