Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions—176,000-year-old semicircular walls of stalagmites in the bowels of a cave in southwest France. The walls are currently the best evidence ...

Stone structures usually bring Egypt to mind, so most people picture pyramids rising out of the desert as the starting point ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mysterious ring-shaped structures fashioned about 176,000 years ago by Neanderthals using broken stalagmites deep inside a cave in southwestern France indicate that our closest ...

Sure, the 14,000-year-old cave paintings recently found in Spain are impressive, with their romping bison and horses, but a far older ancient art mystery is being untangled in France. The Bruniquel ...

The discovery of more than 100 prehistoric structures in the Cova Dones cave in Spain makes it one of the most significant prehistoric underground sites in the world. Archaeologists found stalagmites ...

Deep in a cave in southwest France, closed off from the outside world for tens of thousands of years, researchers have discovered evidence of early human construction. But the ring-like structure with ...

Deep in a dark cave in southwestern France lie half a dozen mysterious structures that scientists believe were built by Neanderthals 176,000 years ago -- about 140,000 years before the first modern ...

Our prehistoric cousins, the Neanderthals, were not just knuckle-dragging cavemen. A new study published in Nature shows they built stone structures deep inside caves in the south of France, and the ...

At any time, anywhere in the world, a simple find can change history as we know it. This is what happened to a group of archaeologists while exploring a cave, finding prehistoric structures and traces ...

Mysterious circular structures found deep inside an underground cave in France are the work of Neanderthals who were living in the region more than 175,000 years ago, researchers believe. The ...

Every material object that exists is overlaid with a mysterious backdrop of cosmic mathematics, which governs its changing shapes and evolutionary stories. Petals of a flower, the jelly-like cells ...

A scientist takes measurements for the archaeo-magnetic survey in the Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France in this undated handout photo after the discovery there of mysterious ring-shaped structures ...