In ancient times, saying goodbye to the dead was anything but simple. Many cultures practiced elaborate rituals to honor lost ...

Research finds most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair, and eyes, with lighter traits only becoming widespread 3,000 ...

A MASSIVE pit containing around 20,000 bits of shellfish has been discovered on the Scottish island of Orkney.

Archaeologists have discovered iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or between 5,000 to 5 ...

Ancient human remains discovered in peatland in County Londonderry in 2023 are now thought to be those of a young woman who ...

A new geophysical survey of the area where the Iron Age Le Câtillon hoard emerged may have found evidence of 2,000-year-old ...

To investigate this question, a team of European researchers analyzed seven severed heads from two archaeological sites in ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin pushes back the antiquity of iron, placing the iron age at 5,300 years ago.

An Iron Age hillfort has been targeted by vandals who have dug firepits, ridden mountain bikes over it and ripped gates off ...

The Villanovan culture, the earliest phase of the Etruscan civilization, was the first Iron Age society in Italy.

The face of an Iron Age woman whose skeleton was discovered in a cliff fall 2,000 years after her death can be revealed for ...

Volunteers have been helping restore an Iron Age hillfort, which was recently damaged by vandals. The Oswestry team spent a ...