A late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age grave has revealed ancient strategies to keep the dead from turning into “revenants” and disturbing the living. The burial included a large stone pinning ...

Were they ritual objects used in sacred ceremonies or as grave goods? Did the ancients ... an iron-rich pigment that Stone Age cultures often used in ceremonies. The scratches visible on the ...

Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...

These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the ... they sat was surrounded by stone to protect them from being bumped and broken. A Neolithic grave at Pentre Ifan, Wales.