The find, announced by the team working at the Siwa site in Lintao, marks a significant breakthrough in understanding this Neolithic civilization that thrived 5,000 years ago. The settlement, ...

Archaeologists unearth “extremely rare” early Neolithic village on the French Riviera, marking the human transition from a nomadic existence to an agricultural society.

Credit: National Museum of Denmark Volcanic eruptions shaped the destinies of ancient European societies, leading to dramatic cultural shifts and the emergence of sun worship practices among Neolithic ...

Two so-called sun stones, which are small flat shale pieces with finely incised patterns and sun motifs. They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. New evidence suggests ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

The American “Archaeology Magazine” listed the necropolis discovered around the Aga Khan Mausoleum west of Aswan, which dates back to the Late Period and Greco-Roman eras, as one of the 10 most ...

The prestigious Archaeology Magazine has recognized the recently discovered necropolis near the Aga Khan Mausoleum in West Aswan as one of the top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2024. This ...

In October 1972, a construction worker came across some gold objects in the ground near Varna, northeastern Bulgaria. Since then, some 300 graves have been excavated, producing some of the ...

New research uncovers the essential role that prehistoric mothers played in driving population growth during the Neolithic period. Approximately 7,500 years ago, humans made spoons from animal ...