Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilization - believed to be the oldest in the world.

It was assumed for a long time that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. However, a new DNA analysis of 55 ...

A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Long before beach bags and bottles of SPF, early humans may have reached for something far more basic to protect themselves from the sun: dirt. That's according to experts who have a new theory ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists ...

A nearly complete skeleton found in a cave in France belonged to a group known as the Palaeolithic dogs and its skeleton suggests it had a confusing relationship with humans ...

The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...