On the Wednesday following the last Tuesday in January, Shetland shuts down. It is the only place in Scotland to have an ...

Aspero, the area in the Caral site where the tomb was found, was formerly used as a municipal dump. "This is an important burial because it has elements that correspond to a woman of high status ...

Archaeological crews working in the Saqqara necropolis discovered the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re from 4,000 years ago. The tomb featured a 14-foot-tall pink granite ...

Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb of an unknown pharaoh beneath around 20 feet of sand at the Abydos archaeological site. The discovery of the tomb of an ancient pharaoh ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Evidence indicates that climate-driven wildfires and subsequent soil erosion around 8,200 years ago led to vegetation collapse in the southern Levant. This ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

“The site, located in the southwest of Mahallat, provides clear evidence of human settlement during the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods,” Mahmoudi told Mehr news agency. “This discovery ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in the ...

LIMA, April 24 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilization, a ...

A Neolithic tomb at Knowth in County Meath, Ireland Sitomon via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 But around the year 3300 B.C.E., these small, simple burial sites gave way to passage tombs.