“Why would you move 75 large stones just so you could dance around twice a year? If you put a roof on it you can use it all year.”

Imagine you are in battle, probably scared out of your wits, and then enemy troops start flinging snakes in your face. The ancient Greeks did just that.

A lost city supposedly ruled by blonde men rich with gold and jewels was part of the reason France made territorial claims in Canada.

Archaeologists have uncovered a labyrinth in India that dates back 2,000 years and has a pattern similar to those found on a clay tablet found at Pylos, Greece, from 1200 B.C.

The idea of “technological primitivism” often attributed to hunter-gatherer coastal settlers must be reevaluated, say Emanuele Lodolo and Zvi Ben-Abraham.

The skeleton could tell us “what life was like for those who lived under the shadow of Stonehenge at a time of frenzied activity.”

Welsh strongman Mark Jeanes has succeeded in a legendary test of strength, where many have failed.

Some ancient Greeks feared the rising dead, some called on them for favors.

Prehistoric Europeans told legends about powerful, mysterious female makers of European stone tombs called dolmens and cromlechs.