Walking through Quedlinburg in the evening feels like stepping into a fairy tale. The town’s preserved medieval streets offer ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

A hobbyist using a metal detector in Brandenburg discovered a cross featuring Jesus inside a wheel that dates back roughly 1,000 years.

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

More than 80 skeletons were buried without heads. What archaeologists found next left them completely stunned.

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding cultural or natural importance to humanity. These sites, ranging from ...

Breathtaking islands known as the ‘Hawaii of Europe’ are about to lose all of their Ryanair flights as the Irish airline ...

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...

From the storied shores of Scandinavia to the ancient cities of the Mediterranean, we've picked out Europe's 29 most ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

Researchers have uncovered evidence of a sprawling prehistoric complex in the hills of Wicklow that rivals the scale of early cities. This monumental find challenges the long held historical narrative ...