1+ hour, 53+ min ago   (435+ words) 13.25 13 Sep 2026 New cave paintings suggest that there were human beings in Ireland 5,000 years earlier than first thought, potentially rewriting history. It's not every day you get to see something that could rewrite Irish history firsthand, but that's the opportunity that…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (297+ words) September 11, 2026 at 01:38 AM • 904 переглядiв Archaeologists have discovered evidence of cannibalism among Neolithic people in southern Spain, and in different communities it may have been associated both with violence and with ritual practices. Researchers analyzed about 1,000 human bones and teeth from…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (526+ words) For 40,000 years, no light or air entered this cave. A 13-meter chamber at the back of Vanguard Cave on the Rock of Gibraltar sat untouched for at least 40,000 years, its entrance buried under a collapse of sand. When archaeologists from…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (543+ words) Archaeologists excavating the ancient Bosporan settlement of Artezian have uncovered a remarkable ritual landscape where offerings were deliberately lowered into the earth, vessels were turned upside down for chthonic deities, and a powerful earthquake appears to have interrupted food preparation…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (528+ words) Ice age hunter-gatherers on an Indonesian island regularly sucked betel nuts to ease tooth pain, according to a new study. The practice dates back at least 25,000 years and pushes the known history of habitual betel nut drug use far deeper…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (430+ words) Archaeologists working at Andik Cave in western Türkiye have uncovered carbonized remains of black figs dating back to around 6300 B.C., showing that the fruit now associated with the Havran district was present in the area more than 8,000 years ago....

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (419+ words) Around 1590 BCE — more than 800 years before Rome was founded, and before Tutankhamun was even born — a small number of people in what is now southeastern Poland started eating a cereal that had never grown in their fields. It wasn’t a…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (187+ words) 10 September 2026, 09:12 The occupiers have begun illegal archaeological excavations at the “Bakla Cave City” cultural heritage site in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Unique artifacts dating from the 10th to 13th centuries have already been removed from the western part of the complex. This…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (391+ words) Intense seasonal occupation: Neanderthals occupied Prado Vargas cave seasonally from spring to late autumn across multiple generations around 46,000 years ago Sophisticated butchery and tools: Over 1,500 finds reveal hunting of bison, boar and deer, alongside specialised bone tools used to sharpen…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (324+ words) UOW researcher's dating work helps to establish the timeline behind one of the longest record of Denisovan occupation An ancient cave in southwestern China has revealed new evidence about how Denisovans — an ancient human relative — lived, survived and adapted over…...