Entombed in rock for over 310 million years, a spider fossil discovered in northern Germany isastonishingly well-preserved.

BERLINBERLIN — A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest ...

Archaeologists and students digging in Blätterhöhle cave uncovered a 9,000-year-old fireplace (above), flint arrowheads and a bone harpoon. Photo from LWL-AfW Olpe / Michael Baales Inside a cave of ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed in southern Germany of a remarkable ape that lived about 11.6 million years ago may dramatically alter the understanding of the evolutionary origins of ...

Researchers were left scratching their heads about the mystery and origins of the 9.7 million-year-old ape teeth that were recently discovered in Germany. They say the discovery could rewrite man's ...

BERLIN (AFP) - German researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works ...

The prehistoric paint box and its pigment was found in a palaeolithic riverside campsite. As well as the paintbox itself, archaeologists also found numerous stone tools and arrowheads - and a ring of ...

Copper artifacts found at a building site in the city of Osnabrück could be of national importance, experts have said. The city added that the find, dating back to ...

A girl buried 3,400 years ago in Denmark, who became one of the country's best-known Bronze Age relics, was probably born in Germany, scientists have discovered. The so-called Egtved Girl was ...

BERLIN — A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence ...

German researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works for wind ...