13+ hour, 25+ min ago   (339+ words) While building a terrace in their backyard, a homeowner in Denmark discovered the treasure of a lifetime: more than 40 pounds (18.5 kilograms) of thousand-year-old silver buried in the ground. An analysis revealed that the finding is the country's largest Viking Age…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (779+ words) Ten students have made a remarkable archaeological discovery on a remote Scottish island after uncovering what could be the remains of a Viking-era church dating back around 1,000 years. According to the Independent, the pupils from Gordonstoun, the private boarding school…...

2+ day, 41+ min ago   (190+ words) Expert Breaks Down The 20 Historical Artifacts That Survived Against The Odds inkl The 20 Historical Artifacts That Survived Against The Odds, According To A History Enthusiast Walking through a modern museum, it is easy to imagine history as an orderly collection…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (371+ words) Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the skeletal remains of an adult believed to have been placed as a ritual offering more than 1,300 years ago. The remains were discovered at Huaca Pucllana, a pre-Hispanic ceremonial and administrative centre in the heart…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1085+ words) Birds may look remarkably familiar today, but their skeletons carry clues to a far more turbulent evolutionary history. A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan has used artificial intelligence and a novel statistical technique to trace how…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (387+ words) Archaeologists have discovered the strange remains of an individual placed deliberately at the bottom of a 2,000-year-old Scottish well, likely as part of an ancient ritual. The Iron Age well, measuring about 3m (10ft) long and a metre (3ft) deep, was found lined…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (697+ words) A team at King's College London pulled keratin out of sheep's wool, turned it into a surgical membrane, and implanted it into rat skulls with holes too large to heal on their own. Measured by sheer volume, the wool material…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (627+ words) inkl Ancient urban civilisation discovered within the dense Amazon rainforest The southwest of the Amazon rain forest has long been regarded as a pristine wilderness, undisturbed by large scale human disturbance until recently. But that story has been turned on…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (531+ words) A transparent rock crystal tool discovered in a French cave more than a century ago continues to reshape what scientists know about Neanderthals. Once dismissed as primitive and unintelligent, these ancient humans are now recognised as skilled toolmakers with an…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (693+ words) The last known woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island, a remote island in the Arctic Ocean located north of Siberia. As the last Ice Age ended and global temperatures rose, melting glaciers caused sea levels to increase. Around 10,000 years ago,…...