Francesco Menotti of Basel University has some new thoughts on the remains of a huge structure that were found in Monmouth, Wales. It had been thought that the three trenches containing complete trees could have been the foundation of a large prehistoric house that had been set on top of a Bronze Age mound of […]

A 7,500-year-old pearl  has been unearthed from a grave at a Neolithic site in the Emirate of Umm al Quwain by French researchers. The intact pearl has been called the oldest ever found, but other drilled pearls have been recovered from Neolithic burials. “The discovery of archaeological pearls demonstrates an ancient fishing tradition that no […]