On the glitzy French Riviera, French archaeologists have made an unparalleled discovery: one of the first and best-preserved Neolithic villages in European history. Currently under excavation, this ...

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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 ...

Known as the Fertile Crescent, the region of the Middle East that links the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea is thought to have been where agriculture began for this part of the world. With the ...

An ancient seawall built by neolithic people to protect their village from sea-level rise over 7,000 years ago has been discovered by scientists. The 330-foot wall, off the Carmel coast of Israel, was ...

(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 ...

This 5,000-year-old whalebone figurine was discovered at the Skara Brae archaeological site, in the Orkney Islands of northern Scotland, in the 1850s. It is one of the oldest artistic representations ...

Even in the Neolithic era, people loved bling. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 2, 2023 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Once history's first farmers settled down to start a more sedentary life, they began to see the value of close-knit communities. And they didn't just forge bonds with their immediate neighbors; ...