2,000-year-old wall paintings reveal ingenious house painters
A new chemical study of the splendid wall paintings of the Domus of Salvius in present-day Cartagena discovered…
‘Space archaeology’ used for first time ever to trace the history of faraway galaxy
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have pioneered a groundbreaking technique to reconstruct the 12-billion-year history of…
Neanderthals May Have Used the World’s First Antibiotic 50,000 Years Ago
Creating birch tar using Neanderthal methods. Image credits: University of Cologne. If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000…
New dinosaur species discovered by scientists is gurning sea creature from Brazil, research reveals
Scientists have unearthed a peculiar prehistoric creature featuring a contorted jaw and teeth that faced sideways rather than…
‘Irreversible loss’: How climate change is threatening Europe’s sunken civilisations
Climate change is endangering the health of Europe’s oceans, and it’s not just marine life that is affected.…
Who Mated With Whom? Neanderthal DNA Shock
A new genomic analysis proposes that interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals was strongly sex-biased. Pairings occurred primarily…
New study shows Jordan Valley site is older than expected
Ubeidiya, a prehistoric site in the Jordan Valley, has been dated by researchers to be at least 1.9…
Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago
A site on Isbjørne Island where Palaeo-Inuit people erected a circular tent Matthew Walls, Mari Kleist, Pauline Knudsen…
430,000-year-old wooden tools are the oldest ever found
An undated photo provided by Nicholas Thompson shows small 430,000-year-old wooden tools of uncertain function recovered from a…
Scientists recover the oldest wooden tools from a site in Greece
This undated image provided by Katerina Harvati shows various angles of a 430,000-year-old wooden tool from Greece. [Katerina…
Handy work: Stencil rock paintings found in Indonesia may be world’s oldest cave art
By Euronews Culture with AP Published on 22/01/2026 – 8:58 GMT+1 •Updated 9:06 Scientists have discovered what may be the world’s…
Ancient DNA and isotope data reflect social diversity in an Eastern Zhou cemetery
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