Farmers working fields in eastern Poland’s Lublin province now face plowing restrictions after archaeologists identified what ...

The T-shaped limestone pillars standing in southeastern Turkey at Göbekli Tepe represent the oldest known megaliths built by ...

A discovery of a 6,300-year-old megalithic grave site in central Iberia recalibrates the history of funerary tradition. The tombs at the Valdelasilla site in central Spain were enclosed by an ...

Ordinarily, it is the task of archaeologists to painstakingly sift through the ground in pursuit of the past. A recent project in central Germany, however, has done something altogether different.

For decades, it was believed that Rujm el-Hiri—an ancient stone megalith located on Syria’s Golan Heights plateau consisting of circular walls orbiting a central mound—was used as an astronomical ...

Buried beneath terraced volcanic rock in the highlands of West Java, Indonesia, lies a hill that briefly shook the archaeological world. Known as Gunung Padang, or "Mountain of Light," the site has ...

Remote sensing at a landscape park in Poland uncovered ancient structures buried beneath. Screengrab from Team of Landscape Parks of the Greater Poland Voivodeship's Facebook post Constructed pyramids ...

This serial property in Brittany, France, features a dense concentration of megalithic structures built during the Neolithic period (c. 5000–2300 BCE), carefully aligned with the area’s unique ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Starting around 4500 B.C.E., communities across western Europe began building massive stone tombs for their dead that we call megaliths. These ...