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WebA farmer lost a hammer in his field and went looking for it with a metal detector — instead he found nearly 15,000 Roman coins, gold jewelry and silver tableware buried beneath the soil, one of the richest Roman treasure hoards ever discovered in Britain
16+ hour, 40+ min ago (521+ words) Peter Whatling lost a hammer in a Suffolk field in November 1992, the sort of thing that happens on a farm most weeks and never gets written down anywhere. Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit Peter Whatling lost a hammer in a…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
19+ hour, 25+ min ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
Strips of adhesive tape pressed against Britain's tallest stone row yielded 236 dated zircon grains, and their ages match a gritstone tor 18 kilometres west rather than the closer outcrop that the monument's official heritage listing still names as its source
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (867+ words) A mineral fingerprint taken without cutting the stones points the Devil's Arrows at Boroughbridge to Brimham Rocks, and a compatible fingerprint turns up in a battle cross probably carved in the fifteenth century. By The Long View · Edited by Chris…...
When Hiram Bingham announced he had discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, families were farming between its terraces and an 11-year-old boy led him up to the ruins — the "lost city of the Incas" appears on maps drawn decades before he arrived
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (175+ words) A Yale explorer's celebrated 1911 "discovery" of Machu Picchu overlooked an inconvenient truth: local families already lived there, and the ruins weren't lost at all. Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit On the morning of July 24, 1911, the man about to become the…...
Two researchers who measured real campfires report that firelight is bright enough to read a pair of hands, and argue that its flicker may be what disadvantaged gesture and favoured speech, while the fire itself can hide whoever sits opposite
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (668+ words) A review in Proceedings of the Royal Society B argues that language itself began in fireside storytelling. It brings light meters to a question that has run for years on description alone. By The Long View · Edited by Chris Jeremia…...
Archaeologists found a 1,200-year-old island in Fiji made almost entirely of discarded shellfish — created by generations of people processing food during the same centuries Maya cities flourished and Viking voyagers began crossing the North Atlantic
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (548+ words) Accumulating shellfish refuse transformed a Fijian shoreline into solid ground, revealing how ordinary people across the Pacific engineered their landscape one meal at a time. Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit A thousand years of lunch has been sitting off the…...
Ancient cacao DNA has been recovered from two pottery fragments dug out of eleventh and twelfth century feasting pits at Etowah in Georgia, reported as the first clear evidence that cacao consumption was part of the Mississippian world
1+ week, 4+ day ago (740+ words) Chemical residues could not tell chocolate apart from a holly native to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, so a French and American team went looking for the plant's DNA instead, and found it on two of the three sherds they…...
The Great Pyramid of Giza weighs roughly eighteen times as much as the Empire State Building — an estimated 2.3 million stone blocks adding up to about 5.9 million tonnes, stacked into place more than 4,000 years ago
2+ week, 1+ day ago (397+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published August 28, 2026 · How we edit Set the two buildings next to each other and the mismatch is almost comic. The Empire State Building is far taller, a slim steel spire that went up in just…...
Sixteen mummified people and a mummified canid accumulated in a single Egyptian side chamber just over five metres long over at least three centuries, and the coffins that structured the earliest burials had stopped appearing entirely by the last ones
2+ week, 5+ day ago (890+ words) A new archaeothanatological study of Side Chamber 3 in Theban Tomb 209 finds at least six of its nine funerary deposits vertically superimposed, and argues the chamber itself took over the organising job the coffins used to do. By The Long View…...
Canopy-penetrating laser scans along 4,430 kilometres of flight lines over Acre and Amazonas found 432 earthworks where only 36 had been recorded, and the survey's authors now propose that 24,000 to 30,000 lie across southwest Amazonia
3+ week, 1+ day ago (788+ words) The flights covered 4,497 square kilometres in 2024, and on already deforested ground along the same lines the laser picked up five times as many structures as the team’s own satellite work had found along those lines. By Science Blog Editorial Team…...