The find included 117 gold artifacts weighing more than 3.7 pounds.

The Gessel gold hoard is among the largest treasures ever discovered in prehistoric Europe but has only three pieces of ...

Sometime around 5,000 years ago, a woman was buried in the waterlogged lowlands where the Rhine and Meuse rivers fan toward ...

New DNA evidence shows that Europe’s hunter-gatherers and early farmers interacted far more closely than previously thought, with women likely playing a crucial role in spreading farming across ...

Study of Europe’s largest Copper Age tomb finds widespread signs of respiratory illness and possible tuberculosis among ...

Learn how ancient dental plaque, Neanderthal comparisons, and chitin-digestion genes show that Europeans rarely ate insects ...

However, groundbreaking ancient DNA analysis has revealed that these complex social structures were actually widespread in Central Europe more than 5,000 years ago. An international team of ...

Tartessos was a land of myths and riches. The advanced culture of the people thrived on the southern Iberian Peninsula near the Guadalquivir River, an area now known as Andalusia, Spain. The story of ...

Thousands of years ago, European communities used a variety of plant and animal products to create elaborate meals, according to a study published March 4, 2026 in the open-access journal PLOS One by ...

Ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 genomes suggests human evolution accelerated after farming, cities, and the Bronze Age transformed Europe.