Imagine a scenario where nuclear weapons knowledge appears thousands of years before modern civilization. Teaching prehistoric humans the basics of uranium enrichment, nuclear fission, and ...

The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has found, combining ingredients in “remarkably selective” ways, with cuisines ...

The artifact, a bronze fragment just six centimeters long, was found in 2023 by volunteer heritage protector Matthias Dasse during a field survey near Kletzke in the Prignitz district of Brandenburg.

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Building on the research of Sir Flinders Petrie, this investigation dives deeper into the enigmatic stone cores and drill marks found across ancient Egypt — and now, in sites as far away as Peru. The ...

A fortified settlement once found itself here, on a scenic hillfort in Germany known ...

A stone being used in the foundation of an old barn in the Czech Republic turned out to be a Bronze Age spearhead mold.

Researchers have identified a white limestone slab uncovered in the Netherlands as the board for a previously unknown Roman strategy game, the rules of which can now be reconstructed. The finding ...