The Altar Stone, the largest of the bluestones used to build Stonehenge, lies at the heart of the ancient monument in ...

I have criss-crossed the United Kingdom, examining its history through the eyes of Current Archaeology. I have now visited ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission, led by Dr. Ahmed Said El-Kharadly of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, has discovered a series of mudbrick architectural units, including military barracks for ...

These indirect impacts of conflict could have caused significant, long-term population fluctuations in non-state societies, such as in Neolithic Europe (circa 7000 BC to 3000 BC), according to the ...

A Fort Bliss soldier will plead guilty to desertion during his first court appearance next month for running into North Korea last year, according to the soldier’s attorney. Pvt. Travis King ...

Neolithic people didn't travel to their island's furthest extremity to get some sandstone because they had to: there was plenty much closer. They did it, I believe, to "make a point". Journeying ...

“Our findings run entirely counter to the idea of ‘primitiveness’ or ‘rudeness’ that for a long time has underpinned both the popular and scientific understanding of Neolithic societies.” If confirmed ...

“It’s a huge, enormous amount of stone, and it’s always been a mystery and an intriguing scientific question how on Earth (it was built given) the technology they had in the Neolithic period.

The megalithic monuments of the Neolithic era—consisting of large stones and peculiar architecture—have long perplexed archeologists and researchers. Menga dolmen, situated on the Iberian ...

Neolithic people seem to have understood sophisticated concepts in science, such as physics and geology, using this knowledge to construct a megalithic monument in southern Spain. Called the Menga ...