The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

The Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain are home to the Sima de los Huesos, or "Pit of Bones," which has offered one of the ...

We don’t know how the the life of this bear was, but its end came in the darkness, at the bottom of a pit in a narrow ...

The cave, located in the separatist region of Abkhazia ... But finally, on October 19, Kasjan dropped down a pit later dubbed Millennium and looked at his altimeter. He had passed the 2,000 ...

Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...

Found in the Yucatán Peninsula, this natural cave is a 60-meter-wide limestone sinkhole. The Sacred Cenote was a symbol of life, spirituality, and cultural heritage for the Maya people and was ...

Archaeologists excavate near the cave at the Sima del Elefante site, near Burgos in northern Spain, where the fossilized skull fragments were found. - Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA ...

Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that lived more than 1.1 million years ago, according to new research.

Additional cave-ins have expanded the size of the original ... 28, when a 2-ton truck fell into the 10-meter-deep pit. The driver in his 70s remains stuck inside the vehicle.

Bone fragments discovered in Spanish cave are putting a face to the earliest ancient humans to arrive in Western Europe, more than a million years ago.