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 ...

The Ness of Brodgar lies on a narrow strip of land between two Orkney lochs [Scott Pike] Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology discovered an ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Karahantepe is one of at least 20 sites dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, more than 10,000 years ago, that are being explored by archaeologists working in the Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, ...

Beyond the north coast of Scotland lie the Orkney Islands, an archipelago of more than 70 islands scattered across the North Sea like breadcrumbs. Long winters, raking winds, and a treeless landscape ...

Outside the southern English village of Avebury, there’s a huddle of towering beech trees that local lore claims inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s humanoid trees, the Ents. True or not, the village’s ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...