Stone Age tombs in Scotland reveal ‘webs of descent’ among male relatives
Stone Age people in northern Scotland buried related males — but not females — together in the same tomb, a new DNA study reveals, creating...
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Ancient Egyptian stone monument depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh discovered in Luxor
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old sandstone monument depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh. The small rectangular monument, called a stela or stele,...
DNA reveals ancestry of man buried in Stone Age monument in Spain, but his religion remains a mystery
In medieval Spain, two men were buried in a prehistoric stone monument that had been constructed millennia earlier. Now, a new analysis of these burials...
Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
A typical male burial from the Stone Age cemetery of Csőszhalom in Hungary. He is buried on his right side, with a polished stone tool...
Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of woodpecker feathers and, in another...
Subterranean tunnel, possibly used for medieval cult rituals, discovered in Stone Age tomb in Germany
While excavating a Stone Age burial site in Germany, archaeologists stumbled upon a mysterious “earth tunnel” that someone made in the Middle Ages, thousands of...
Stone Age teenager was mauled by a bear 28,000 years ago, skeletal analysis confirms
Nearly 28,000 years ago, a teenage boy was buried with care in a cave in what is now northern Italy, a spectacular shell cap covering...