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The mysterious megastructures of ancient eastern Europe were hubs of social and political decision making, but their role in centralising political control may have led to the downfall of these ...

Around 2.5 million years ago, our planet looked very different to how it does now. Not only did woolly mammoths traverse the terrain alongside Stone Age people, our planet was undergoing a series of ...

The excavation of a Stone Age community center in Ukraine is helping explain why large groups of tens of thousands of people flourished and then fell more than 5,000 years ago. The "megastructure" ...

In a quiet corner of Europe’s limestone backcountry, researchers have uncovered a discovery that could turn our understanding of prehistoric life on its head. Four massive stone megastructures, hidden ...

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