Aux origines

Teplice - A Czech dog walker has found a 4000-year-old treasure including gold and bronze jewels and tools at Libochovany in May and the items will go on display at the Teplice museum at the weekend, museum director Bohuslav Bocek has told...

A Swedish archaeological expedition from the University of Gothenburg has excavated a previously unknown part of the Bronze Age city Hala Sultan Tekke (around 1600–1100 BC). The finds include a facility for extraction of copper and production of bronze objects, evidence of production of luxurious textiles, as well as ceramics and other objects imported from all over the Mediterranean but also from central Europe.

The same brain activity is used for language production and making complex tools, supporting the theory that they evolved at the same time.

A 350-million-year-old fossilised scorpion discovered in South Africa is the oldest known land animal to have lived on Gondwana, part of Earth's former supercontinent, a university said Monday.

Archaeologists have found evidence of the first Bronze Age body in Britain being wrapped in sheepskin - in a prehistoric cist discovered by accident during work on a septic tank at a village in Sutherland,

When a prehistoric burial was accidentally discovered in September 2011 during the construction of a septic tank at Spinningdale in Sutherland, GUARD Archaeology were called out to investigate and made an extraordinary find.

Through Historic Scotland’s Human Remain Call-Off Contract, the GUARD Archaeology team, led by Iraia Arabaolaza, were commissioned to excavate a stone cist, built within a substantial pit, containing the remains of a crouched inhumation of a middle-aged adult female (35-50 years) with signs of spinal joint disease.

Discovery of a sheepskin

A radiocarbon date of 2051-1911 BC and 2151-2018 BC was obtained from a bone and charcoal fragments respectively, placing the cist in the early Bronze Age period. A tripartite food vessel urn, of Early Bronze Age date, was placed to the west of her skull, but what made this burial a particularly extraordinary site was the discovery of sheepskin and wool recovered from under the skeletal remains.

Excavations carried out by a Japanese team in Batman’s ancient city of Hasankeyf have revealed

Experts said the piece of ancient skull is an 'exceptional find' as the intricate marks from blood vessels are still visible on the inner surface.

One of the deadliest infectious diseases of humankind emerged in Africa 70,000 years ago, a new genetic analysis of 259 Tuberculosis bacterial strains has shown.

Unique on the Polish scale clay figurine from the Neolithic period (fourth millennium BC) depicting a stylised woman figure has been found during the excavations in Racibórz.

Néandertal, une étude montre qu'il existait plusieurs cultures dans la taille du biface. Cela implique des échanges, un apprentissage, un partage des connaissances dans les populations néandertaliennes.

The ancient closest relatives of mammals – the cynodont therapsids - not only survived the greatest mass extinction of all time, 252 million years ago, but thrived in the aftermath, according to new research.

For the first time, a dramatic global climate shift has been linked to the impact in Quebec of an asteroid or comet, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues report in a new study.

Dans le Niolu, comme chaque été depuis 2010, une équipe de jeunes archéologues bénévoles a travaillé sur ce site du Néolithique.

A clue to an impact in Quebec fuels an ongoing debate about the cause of one of Earth's big freezes, called the Younger Dryas

A Swedish archaeological expedition from the University of Gothenburg has excavated a previously unknown part of the Bronze Age city Hala Sultan Tekke (around 1600–1100 BC).

A Swedish archaeological expedition has excavated a previously unknown part of the Bronze Age city Hala Sultan Tekke (around 1600-1100 BC).

Unique on the Polish scale clay figurine from the Neolithic period (fourth millennium BC) depicting a stylised woman figure has been found during the excavations in Racibórz.

An Iron Age tunic is among the discoveries found under melting snow on Norwegian mountains.

Une nouvelle campagne de fouilles archéologiques vient de s’achever à Calacuccia au Niolu sur le site d’U Castellu di Sarravalle. Depuis quatre ans, plus de 25 000 objets, datant du Néolithique, ont déjà été récupérés sur ce même site et étudiés.

Scientists have brought to light the spread of dairy farming in Europe and the development of milk tolerance in adult humans.

Des fortifications remontant au 8ème siècle avant notre ère protégeaient probablement un port assyrien.