The hair color of the ancient Greeks has long intrigued historians. Luckily, evidence of their appearance can be found in ...

Beyond the crowded squares of Prague and the tourist-packed canals of Venice lies a secret Europe, a collection of ...

The research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona analyzed pottery from key El Argar administrative centers including Tira del Lienzo and Ifre in Murcia province. According to the study ...

A dog-like animal found in Italy has been revealed to be the earliest wolf ever discovered in Europe. The findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports last month. The discovery highlights ...

All names have a source and a meaning, right? So, what does "Europe" mean and where does it come from? This question might not pop up during your morning coffee conversation, but the story is worth ...

People living along southeastern Europe’s Danube River around 11,500 years ago never planted a crop but still laid the foundation for the rise of farming in that region some 3,000 years later, a new ...

Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously unknown waves of migration. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

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Ice sheets expanded across much of northern Europe from around 25,000 to 19,000 years ago, making a huge expanse of land unlivable. That harsh event set in motion a previously unrecognized tale of two ...

Researchers recently identified Roman warriors' bodies stacked in an ancient well in Croatia, connecting them to Emperor ...

THE GURGHIU MOUNTAINS, Romania — Deep in one of Europe’s oldest protected forests, workers loaded freshly cut logs onto a flatbed truck. They were bound for a factory that makes wood pellets to fuel ...