Like many ancient sites, the existence of Su Nuraxi—a 3,500-year-old megalithic complex in Barumini, Sardinia—was known to local farmers long before it caught the attention of professional ...

Some 500 kilometres west of Paris, on Brittany’s Atlantic coast, stand the mysterious prehistoric stone alignments of Morbihan – now on Unesco's World Heritage list. RFI went to see why the ancient ...

The iconic Neolithic monument of Stonehenge may have represented an attempt to unify people living in different parts of prehistoric Britain, researchers have proposed in a study. The paper analyzes ...

A new study uncovers gender bias at the megalithic necropolis of Panoria where twice as many women were buried. A multidisciplinary research team led by the Archaeometry research group of the ...

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The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...

A 2023 paper was published in Archaeological Prospection titled “Geo-archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia,” claiming that the megalithic site ...

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Sulawesi does not reveal itself easily. The island is all elbows and crooked peninsulas, a mapmaker’s afterthought, with roads that stutter into mountains and villages hidden in folds of cloud. To go ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The massive monument Stonehenge has captivated people's attention for centuries. Built out of ...