In the most robust study of its kind, archaeologists from Cardiff University analyzed six “middens,” or massive prehistoric ...

After analyzing bone fragments found in millennia-old trash piles, researchers say that people may have brought livestock ...

Middens, massive prehistoric rubbish heaps which became part of the British landscape, are revealing the distances people ...

In what the team calls the “largest study of its kind,” researchers applied this principle to Britain’s iconic middens, or ...

Learn what massive mounds of ancient trash tell us about the large food festivals in Late Bronze Age Britain.

On the uninhabited island of Keros in Greece, Bronze Age artifacts reveal a lost civilization, leaving a mystery that has ...

Middens, massive prehistoric rubbish heaps which became part of the British landscape, are revealing the distances people travelled to feast together ...

An open field in Scotland was set to be dotted with the homes of a fresh new subdivision. But right as the project was getting underway, archaeologists studying the area uncovered nearly 12,000 years ...

A “remarkable” Bronze Age hoard discovered on land that was due to be turned into football pitches will go on display next ...

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...