University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

For decades, scientists assumed that the first modern humans to arrive in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, quickly evolved ...

One of Europe's oldest neighbourhoods is being suffocated by noise pollution and has seen an uncontrolled growth of short ...

Archaeologists wonder whether the volcanic eruption may have contributed to the “Neolithic decline,” a period when northern Europe’s human population decreased. Other possible drivers of ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

The virtual absence of figurative imagery in the archaeological record of the north-west European Neolithic highlights the exceptional nature of the stone plaques from Vasagård.” The sun stones ...

In Europe alone, approximately 2 million people live with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their incidence has ...

Such sites existed throughout Europe during the Neolithic period, Iversen said. At Vasagård, the ditches had been around for at least 500 years before the sun stones appeared there, according to ...