These prehistoric European sites are a fascinating window onto the history of humanity. By visiting them, you can discover more about early civilisations who did their bit in shaping the modern world.

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Ancient DNA shows hunter-gatherers in parts of Europe survived for millennia after Anatolian farmers introduced agriculture.

Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have used ancient DNA to reveal that hunter-gatherers in one part of Europe survived for thousands of years longer than anywhere else on the continent—and ...

The geochemistry of copper artefacts reveals changes in distribution networks across prehistoric Europe, according to a study published May 10, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jan Piet ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Humans first made dogs their best friends in prehistoric Europe, where groups of hunter-gathers learnt to tame dangerous wolves into companions between 19,000 and 32,000 years ago, ...

Scientists have found evidence of a matrilineal society in the southwest of England after analyzing DNA from human remains found at a rare Iron Age burial site. The findings represent a major ...