A Neolithic settlement discovered in marshes in northeast France has "no equivalent" in Europe, according to archaeologists. The settlement at the vast site of Marais de Saint-Gond was uncovered by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the glitzy French Riviera, French archaeologists have made an unparalleled discovery: one of the first and best-preserved ...

Did the Neolithic age in Greece begin as early as 11,000 BC? New evidence suggests indigenous roots beyond Fertile Crescent ...

Were Greece's Neolithic Dimini people responsible for the violent conquest of the Sesklo people, or did the two communities ...

Carrowkeel in County Sligo is presented as one of Ireland’s four major passage tomb cemeteries, with 14 cairns spread across the Bricklieve Mountains and dated between 3400 and 3100 BCE. The tombs are ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in Italy. The bones were worn and broken, but there was no evidence of violence, leading the researchers to suspect the ...

A farming-fueled baby boom long thought to have sparked the rise of ancient cities in southwest Asia turns out to have been a bust. At a massive site in southern Turkey called Çatalhöyük, large ...

(CNN) — Researchers have reassembled an ancient ornate necklace discovered in the grave of a child who lived in the Neolithic village of Ba'ja in what's now southern Jordan. More than 2,500 colorful ...

Around 9,000 years ago, an "extraordinary" necklace was buried with a child at an ancient settlement in the Middle East. Now, researchers have described how they reconstructed the artifact several ...