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Sub specie œternitatis, the recurrent wreck of civilizations is an incident in the progress of the Neolithic mass towards collective self-improvement. Recurrent dark ages are the interval in which the ...

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 ...

Archaeologists involved in documenting the site described the volcanic rock surfaces as "among the earliest canvases of the human imagination," noting that every carved line—whether depicting animals, ...

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 ...

Millions of years ago, early humans lived in a world where survival was anything but guaranteed. Wild predators, ...

DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete. The findings suggest they arose from an ...

Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country's antiquities expert said Wednesday. / Source: Reuters ...

As divers scoured the floor of an Italian lake off the Mediterranean, the wooden edge of a canoe poked out from the dirt. The lake, just outside modern-day Rome, was once home to an ancient people ...