History

Dating efforts of a ship burial on Norway's north-central island of Leka have revealed it is the oldest known such burial in Scandinavia. It predates the Viking Age. Archaeologists and a metal detectorist found the ship last summer on Herlaugshaugen,...

Naples, Italy divers recently found a chunk of obsidian in the remains of an ancient shipwreck near Capri. The ship likely dates back to the Neolithic period, also known as the New Stone Age. This piece of natural glass is...

Archaeologists working at Houchengzui Stone City in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of northern China, have made a new discovery. They've found a system of old tunnels that's about 4,300 to 4,500 years old. This massive dig site, which is...

In 1868, near the French village of Les Eyzies, a geologist named Édouard Lartet made a significant discovery in a small cave. This find revealed that our modern human roots go way back in history. The discovery happened during road...

Kiel University's Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1266 is looking into the nutrition of Trypillia mega-sites, situated in the forest-steppe northwest of the Black Sea, which covers today's Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. These mega-sites, dating back six thousand years, were...

While renovating their home, a couple from the United Kingdom discovered an unexpected cache of rare gold coins. The couple found an unusual cup under the kitchen floor, hidden between old floorboards. Initially thought to be a trivial find, it...

New archaeological research reveals that the sea off northwestern Australia once had islands and a massive landmass. This area was so large it could support around half a million people, as reported in a study published in Quaternary Science...

The Guinness Book of World Records has officially recognized the Paratethys as the largest lake in Earth's history. This immense lake, also known as Lake Paratethys, held a staggering ten times more water than all of today's lakes combined. Vladimir...

A recent study, published on December 7th in the journal Cell, examined the DNA of people living in the Balkan region between 1 and 1000 CE. Experts concluded that there is no sign of Italian ancestry from the Iron...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to bring the ancient Seven Wonders of the World, such as the Colossus of Rhodes and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, back to life. AI, using the Midjourney image generator, has successfully recreated these...