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Ancient canoes hint at bustling trade in Mediterranean 7000 years ago

Italian canoes capable of transporting people and goods have been dated to the Neolithic period, suggesting there was a bustling trade across the Mediterranean Sea

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Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England

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First Nations astronomers predicted eclipses without using writing

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A drawing of people worshipping the sun during an eclipse

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Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans and sabre-toothed cats

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Did the people of Easter Island independently invent writing?

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Indigenous Australians have managed land with fire for 11,000 years

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Ukraine may have been first part of Europe colonised by early humans

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Genomes of modern Indian people include wide range of Neanderthal DNA

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A close-up view of a burial trench between rows of individual graves, excavated between the concrete foundations of the Royal Mint, from the excavation of the Black Death cemetery, East Smithfield, London, view looking west. (Photo by MOLA/Getty Images)

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Crypt review: Alice Roberts on murder and mayhem in the Middle Ages

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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts

Ancient and fragile papyrus samples are at risk of being damaged by fungi, but a wasabi-based treatment can disinfect them without damage

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When does a bone become a fossil?

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Hominins may have left Africa 700,000 years earlier than we thought

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Mammoth tusk tool may have been used to make ropes 37,000 years ago

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Modern humans were already in northern Europe 45,000 years ago

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Modern humans were already in northern Europe 45,000 years ago

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