Legend says the Devil tried to destroy Aldborough by hurling 25-ton stones at the town. He missed. The stones landed near ...

In southeastern Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered a Neolithic sculpture that appears to show a person astride a leopard.

Cannibalism was sometimes on the Neolithic menu, as numerous archaeological discoveries have revealed. But while ancient ...

Three giant Neolithic stones in Yorkshire travelled about 11 miles before becoming part of the mysterious Devil’s Arrows monument. Scientists have now traced their geological origin.

The Neolithic was an evolutionary and social turning point for humans—and these changes sometimes took a dark turn.

For decades, prehistoric cannibalism has tended to be interpreted as a single type of behavior,” Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A vast Neolithic structure that could date back to more than 5,000 ...

About 11,000 years ago, a Neolithic artist living in modern-day Turkey carved a 2.3-foot-tall sculpture of a human riding on ...

An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding practices that demonstrate how the first high mountain ...

Researchers discovered 614 stone plaques and fragments at Vasagård West, an archaeological site on the Danish island of Bornholm. National Museum of Denmark Over the years, a variety of mysterious ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have revealed a "unique" prehistoric burial featuring ...

The Neolithic Revolution involved the advent of agriculture, which finally allowed people to settle down in ever-larger groups and focus on things other than procuring calories—things like developing ...