As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. This summer, the University of Reading Archaeology Field School, U.K., excavated one of the most extraordinary ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. This summer, the University of Reading Archaeology ...

This summer, the University of Reading Archaeology Field School excavated one of the most extraordinary sites we have ever had the pleasure of investigating. The site is an Early Neolithic long barrow ...

A project aimed to create an image out of a skull successfully identified the "Penang Woman," who lived 5,700 years ago during the Neolithic stone age, with the researchers revealing what the person ...

This summer, the University of Reading Archaeology Field School excavated one of the most extraordinary sites we have ever had the pleasure of investigating. The site is an Early Neolithic long barrow ...

This summer, the University of Reading Archaeology Field School excavated one of the most extraordinary sites we have ever had the pleasure of investigating. The site is an Early Neolithic long barrow ...

Lake Bracciano, once the home of a Neolithic civilization, now sits miles from modern-day Rome and serves as an archaeological site. Nikole Ceccarelli via Unsplash As divers scoured the floor of an ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an 8,000-year-old stone figurine in a cave in Azerbaijan, offering a remarkable glimpse into ...

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