Perdigões: the Portuguese prehistoric sanctuary that drew all of Europe
In the Alentejo, a 16-hectare ditched complex built between 3400 and 2000 BCE reveals an inter-regional ceremonial centre: African ivory, Sicilian amber, and a timb…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
In the Alentejo, a 16-hectare ditched complex built between 3400 and 2000 BCE reveals an inter-regional ceremonial centre: African ivory, Sicilian amber, and a timb…
Read →In Egypt's Minya governorate, Predynastic tombs with tapered walls illuminate the path from simple pits to the monuments of Giza.
Read →A study published in Nature reveals that Yersinia pestis was killing Siberian hunter-gatherer communities 5,500 years ago, long before cities, rats, and fleas. The oldest genetically documented epidemic on record.
A 2026 study in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows that Border Cave occupants in South Africa built and maintained plant-based bedding for over 150,000 years , fresh grass on ash to repel insects, old bedding burned before renewal.
At 6 months old, Neanderthal infant Amud 7 was already the size of a 13-month-old modern human. A 2026 study in Current Biology reveals a growth strategy radically different from our own.
Far from being a remote backwater, the Orkney archipelago now looks like a hub of innovation that radiated south across Britain. Twenty years of digging at the Ness of Brodgar are upending our story of the Neolithic.
Read →A study published in <em>Nature</em> in June 2026 has overturned one of the most widely held hypotheses about Nean…
Read →Near the pyramids, radar, resistivity and cosmic rays are revealing voids and buried structures. Between solid dis…
Read →More than four thousand years ago, a vast city stretched along the Indus, in present-day Pakistan. Mohenjo-daro he…
Read →Near Târgu Neamț, LiDAR-equipped drones pierced the canopy and unveiled Copper Age fortifications invisible from the ground: defensive ditches and ramparts across some ten hectares.
In a cairn in northern Scotland, a woman's bones were shaped into points and edges, used, then carefully returned to their anatomical position. A rare and baffling handling of the dead.
At Vitry-sur-Seine, an Inrap excavation uncovers a rare Mesolithic camp preserved by the Seine's floods. A first window onto the last hunter-gatherers of the Val-de-Marne.
One hundred and twenty-four radiocarbon dates prove it: far from empty, the high Pyrenees have been visited without interruption since the early Holocene. A shelter perched at 2,320 metres holds the oldest traces.
Read →In Burgundy, the Grande Grotte of Arcy holds France's oldest still-visible paintings, 28,000 years old. Neandertha…
Read →Deep in a South African cave lie some twenty individuals of an extinct, tiny-brained humanity. Analysis of their p…
Read →Fired nearly 2,800 years ago, jars stamped by the Kingdom of Judah froze the state of Earth's magnetic field into …
Read →What if the Neanderthals' demise was due not only to climate or competition from Sapiens, but to a hidden flaw in their blood? A blood-group incompatibility may have undermined every pregnancy born of interbreeding.
Read →Neanderthal dental tartar betrays an unexpected menu: insect larvae and eggs, eaten regularly. Their digestion cou…
Read →The deformed skull of a prehistoric girl, unearthed in Spain, bears the mark of a rare malformation. That she live…
Read →At Jabal al-Tayr in Middle Egypt, a vast necropolis five millennia old reveals the evolution of funerary architect…
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