A newly discovered prehistoric cave in eastern Türkiye is drawing attention after researchers found nearly 100 painted human ...

A new study suggests an ancient version of plague most likely spread among family members in hunter-gatherer groups, with ...

The discovery of more than 100 prehistoric structures in the Cova Dones cave in Spain makes it one of the most significant prehistoric underground sites in the world. Archaeologists found stalagmites ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago.

Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe's population in late Neolithic times—from around 5,600 ...

Andy works at a museum and has the use of a time machine to go back to prehistoric times to collect feathers, bones or ...

The study revisited one of Stonehenge's biggest mysteries: where the Altar Stone came from and how it reached southern England.

Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and hunt too, according to a study published in PLOS One by Daniel Groß from ...

Their work represents the oldest detection of plague outbreaks known to researchers, as well as the first unambiguous evidence that early and genetically different Yersinia pestis strains were deadly ...