3,500-Year-Old Bronze Age Axe Discovered Near the Swiss–French Border
A remarkably well-preserved Middle Bronze Age bronze axe has been discovered on a steep hillside overlooking the border village of Burg im Leimental, offering fresh…
European prehistory
Ancient Iberian and Basque May Share a Common Origin, New Linguistic Study Suggests
A new linguistic study is reopening one of Europe’s oldest scholarly debates: whether the ancient Iberian language and Basque (Euskara) share a common origin. By…
How Neolithic Rubbish Is Rewriting the Story of Europe’s First Farmers
Nearly 8,000 years ago, Europe’s earliest farmers began confronting a problem no hunter-gatherer group had ever faced: what to do with the growing piles of…