Archaeology
Archaeologists Unearth Roman Horse Cemetery With 100 Skeletons
“The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse” is a saying that holds true for the ...
Prehistoric Hearths Reveal Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers Were Masters of the Flame
Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is ...
Mass Grave of 150 Roman Soldiers Found Under Vienna Sports Field
Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the Danube River ...
Archaeologists Find Creepy 2,400-Year-Old Puppets Atop El Salvador Pyramid
A recent discovery at the top of a pyramid in El Salvador challenges the notion that pre-Columbian Salvadorans were isolated ...
Severed Heads in Iron Age Iberia Weren’t Just War Trophies, New Research Suggests
Iron Age people living on the Iberian Peninsula in the last millennium BCE had a striking funerary tradition: chopping off ...
Archaeologist Who Uncovered Pharaoh’s Tomb May Have Just Made an Even Bigger Find
The stunning discovery of a pharaoh’s burial spot last week was a bombshell in the archaeology world. Not since Howard ...
Viking Dental Health Was a Nightmare, New Skull Analysis Shows
Many Viking-era Scandinavians likely showed off their badass scars from raiding and pillaging, but they were probably kvetching more about ...
The River Thames Has Been a Dumping Ground for Bodies for at Least 6,000 Years, Study Reveals
The average Londoner might be shocked to hear that, over the past two hundred years, hundreds of human bones have ...
AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius
Researchers at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have deciphered yet another scroll carbonized by the ...
Archaeologists Use Toilet to Track Down Manor Depicted in Famous Medieval Tapestry
Dating back over nine centuries, the Bayeux Tapestry tells the epic story of William of Normandy’s conquest in England in ...
