Argos, one of Greece's oldest continuously inhabited cities, is located on the Peloponnese peninsula. Varanasi, on the sacred Ganges River, is one of the oldest cities in the world.

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual ...

Credit: National Museum of Denmark Volcanic eruptions shaped the destinies of ancient European societies, leading to dramatic cultural shifts and the emergence of sun worship practices among Neolithic ...

Two so-called sun stones, which are small flat shale pieces with finely incised patterns and sun motifs. They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. New evidence suggests ...

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

Stone plaques used in Neolithic sacrifices discovered in Denmark. Credit: John Lee / The National Museum of Denmark / CC BY 4.0 A recent archaeological study suggests that Neolithic sacrifices in ...

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) AMMAN - The majority of known Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlements are ... identified within the Jordan Valley include Jericho, Dhra, Wadi Faynan 16, and Salibiya.

The New York Knicks are shopping around Jericho Sims ahead of the Feb. 6 NBA trade deadline, NBA sources told the New York Post's Stefan Bondy. Bondy added that the team has asked for a second ...