It is one of ancient Britain's most iconic and puzzling landmarks. But scientists are now finally starting to solve some of Stonehenge's most baffling mysteries. This week, a group of leading experts ...

Stonehenge may have been built to symbolise a unification in Stone Age Britain. The idea could explain why so many of the stones making up the monument were brought in over huge distances. Located on ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries The Ness of Brodgar—roughly, “headland of the bridge farm” in ...

BAY OF AARHUS, Denmark (AP) — Below the dark blue waters of the Bay of Aarhus in northern Denmark, archaeologists search for coastal settlements swallowed by rising sea levels more than 8,500 years ...

Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone is in the Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103, Leipzig, Germany, and in the Department of Archaeology and Museology, ...

Genetic analysis of people buried in a 2000-year-old cemetery in southern England has bolstered the idea that Celtic communities in Britain placed women centre-stage, showing that women remained in ...