Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...

Two medieval men, buried face down and hundreds of years apart, have been discovered in a Neolithic monument in southern ...

Chickpeas are a standard ingredient of Andalucian and Spanish cooking. When you go to the vegetable shops in Aracena you will ...

Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar is thought to be one of the last Neanderthal refuges and scientists have been working to unravel ...

During one of my many visits to Portugal, I had the unique and profound experience of becoming a Portuguese citizen through ...

A cave in Gibraltar remained sealed for 40,000 years - but when archaeologists opened it, they found evidence suggesting ...

A chamber sealed off from the world for roughly 40,000 years has been pried open on the edge of Europe, and with it a rare, ...

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are being stressed by a variety of forces, and because of this, the peninsula is ...

Spain is home to some of Europe’s oldest settlements, with villages and towns whose origins stretch back thousands of years. From prehistoric cave communities in the north to early Iberian ...

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

Engineers reinvent the 5,000-year-old gear using fluids instead of solid teeth.