Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...
The discovery of a 5th millennium BC grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far ...
In a fenced-off industrial corridor near the Black Sea, a patch of overgrown land in Varna, Bulgaria, holds the remnants of a ...
The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...
Lying on the ground near the center of Stonehenge, partially covered by two huge slabs that appear to have toppled over, is a 16-foot-long block of gray-green sandstone. In 1620, noted landscape ...
The Natufian culture occupies a special place in the evolution of human societies in the Near East, marking the starting point for the emergence of farming communities. Credit: R. Yeshurun, CC BY-SA 3 ...
Roughly 14 miles from the ancient city of Syracuse in southeastern Sicily, more than 4,000 tombs were carefully cut into the walls of a limestone gorge. The tombs make up the Necropolis of Pantalica, ...