Ritualized human sacrifice was common across Europe during the Stone Age, according to a team of researchers who recently tried to estimate the number of sacrifice victims on the continent.
Archaeologists studying ancient human remains in a Spanish cave system posit that one individual’s burial is the oldest Neolithic funerary site in Iberia by over 1,000 years.
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated south-central Turkey and northern Syria did not damage the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe, according researchers there.