A multidisciplinary study has uncovered new details about a centuries-old burial in northern Finland, revealing genetic links to Sámi populations and evidence of a remarkably mobile life. A new study by the University of Turku and its partners has revealed new details about a man buried near Lake Kitka in Kuusamo, Finland, around the turn [...]
A new analysis of 2,000-year-old skeletons found in northern Scotland has revealed an unusual funeral ritual involving the manipulation of dead bodies.
Penis etchings -- the longstanding hallmark of military troops.
The tall container was almost certainly used for distillation experiments.
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A 200-year-old runic Lord’s Prayer found in Ontario defies easy explanation.
Archaeologists are unsure why people in Stone Age Slovakia removed corpses' heads before burying them in a neighborhood ditch.
Rene Salm has posted responses to Nazareth-related arguments in Ken Dark’s last three publications. Richard Carrier relies heavily on Ken Dark for the site of first century Nazareth and has recommended others read Dark’s work carefully. My first recommended reading for Carrier is Salm’s detailed analysis of Dark’s claims. Compare the difference: Carrier’s response to … Continue reading "Two…
There’s no doubt about it – burning stuff is what makes us human. Aside from the fact that fire makes food safer, tastier, and more digestible, burning a few sticks pushes back the darkness, keeps predators at bay, and keeps us toasty warm.
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The carefully arranged Neolithic remains show signs of skillful skull removal.
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After domesticating potatoes 10,000 years ago, the ancient people of the Andes evolved to have more copies of a key gene involved in digesting starch.
Cavour Scientific High School is less than 1,000 feet from the Colosseum.
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The Romans were the first to wear clog-style footwear to the baths to protect their feet from the hot floor and to better navigate slippery surfaces.
Cairo — An Egyptian-French archaeological mission has uncovered a sophisticated Mamluk-era water supply system and the remains of a historic mosque near the Citadel of Salah al-Din, offering fresh insights into the infrastructure that supported medieval Cairo’s political and administrative centre. The excavation, conducted by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in cooperation with the French…
This massive ring was buried during one of Britain's most turbulent decades.
The mammoth remains were found in Bavaria, Germany.
Silphium was an extinct Libyan plant renowned for contraception, medicine, and trade. Its disappearance remains a historical mystery, and scientists continue searching for surviving descendants. Roman leader Julius Caesar is said to have kept a stock of it in the treasury. Ancient writer Pliny the Elder says Rome’s Emperor Nero owned the last stalk of [...]
New discoveries at the ancient port of Aydhab in Halayeb are reopening a forgotten chapter of Egypt’s history, when a remote Red Sea settlement served as one of the Islamic world’s great crossroads. Perched on Egypt’s far southeastern coast where the Eastern Desert meets the Red Sea, Aydhab connected Cairo to Mecca, India, China and […]
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Hidden deep within Egypt’s deserts are caves that preserve the memory of vanished lakes, forgotten peoples and a world that disappeared thousands of years before the first pyramid rose at Giza In the spring of 1933, Hungarian explorer and aviator László Almásy was navigating the remote cliffs and sandstone valleys of Egypt’s Gilf Kebir plateau […]
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A century after they were discovered, they're finally getting some appreciation.
The 5,300-year-old hunter, who was found frozen in the Alps in 1991, has fascinated reseachers for decades.
Crannogs may have been built by the country's early inhabitants some 4,000 years ago.
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After being notified by mischievous high school students, archaeologists uncovered a large and luxurious second-century Roman house near the Colosseum.
In a first, underwater archaeologists in the Bahamas have discovered three shipwrecks associated with the Golden Age of Piracy off the coast of Nassau.
Archaeologists are turning their attention and research skills to far-flung places on the Earth and beyond, discovering new information about how humans survive in extreme environments.
Melting ice age glaciers could't have moved Altar Stone alone.
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You wouldn't want to drink from this 2,000-year-old vintage though.
An airtight medieval latrine preserved a pocket-sized wax ledger, complete with an unpleasant odor.
A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts that had colonized Ötzi's body shortly after his death 5,300 years ago in the Alps.
‘USS Herring’ sank in June 1944, killing all 83 sailors aboard.
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Over a century after a red-lined cave wall was discovered, scientists have determined that it represents the U.K.'s oldest rock art.