26 May 2026
Ancient DNA Reveals 5,000-Year-Old “Blended Families” Buried in Europe’s Megalithic Tombs
More than 5,000 years ago, the people buried inside Central Europe’s great stone tombs were not…
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Kiel University
2 January 2025
More than 1,300 prehistoric burial mounds in western Azerbaijan systematically surveyed for the first time
Over 1,300 archaeological sites in Azerbaijan were systematically surveyed and documented in two field campaigns in…
30 April 2024
Archaeology team discovers a 7,000-year-old and 13-hectare settlement in Serbia
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown Late Neolithic settlement near the Tamiš River in Northeast Serbia.…
13 February 2024
Stone Age Architectural Marvel Unveiled Deep in the Baltic Sea: It may be one of the largest known Stone Age structures in Europe
Hiding deep beneath the Baltic Sea, an architectural wonder of the Stone Age has been discovered…
31 January 2024
The first analysis results confirm that the grave in Tiarp is one of the oldest stone burial chambers in Scandinavia
In Tiarp, close to Falköping, Sweden, archaeologists from Gothenburg University and Kiel University have discovered a…
27 December 2023
Europe’s earliest cities had a predominantly vegetarian diet
The population of the Copper Age mega-sites in what is now Ukraine and Moldova had a…
24 July 2023
Network analysis of prehistoric relationships using raw archaeological finds and AI
A project of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS uses archaeological raw material finds for network analyses…
14 January 2023
Headless skeletons discovered in Prehistoric mass grave
Archaeologists have found a mass grave site containing 38 decapitated burials at a Neolithic settlement in…
3 August 2022
Extraordinary discovery for the Western Baltic Sea region: a 400-year-old shipwreck Found at Bottom of German River
During a routine measurement at Trave, near Lübeck, in the northern part of Germany, Kiel-Holtenau Waterways…
19 February 2022
Palau’s green pyramids: could be a geo-archaeological project
Archaeologists from Kiel University's Institute for Ecosystem Research (CAU) and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) studied…