The discoveries show that ancient DNA can be recovered from Pompeiian human bones, providing new insight into this historic community’s genetic history and lifestyles. The…
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Bread, that simple “staff of life,” has gotten a bad reputation in recent years, mainly from those who advocate low-carb or gluten-free diets. However, foregoing…
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has…
Russia and Ukraine: What is at stake in this crisis? Northwestern experts in history, international relations and political science explain. As Russian forces close in…
The original Venus from Willendorf. Left: lateral view. Right-top: hemispherical cavities on the right haunch and leg. Right bottom: existing hole enlarged to form the…
Professor Søren M. Sindbæk has directed the Northern Emporium project in the emporium Ribe, Denmark. The archaeological stratigraphy of the sites has secured an improved…
Daisen Kofun, aerial view. Credit: © Ministry of Territory, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, under kind permission A research group at the Politecnico di Milano analyzed…
Credit: Leiden University In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords, and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape.…
Hanging mistletoe is a Christmas tradition. A parasitic plant with potentially poisonous berries might not sound like something that would boost your Christmas decorations to…
Hand of Plague victim. Credit: CDC/ Dr. Jack Poland ‘Plague skeptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th–8th…
A red paint sample taken from a 1,000-year-old mask excavated from a Sicán tomb in Peru contains human blood and bird egg proteins, in addition…
A member of the team from University of Leicester Archaeological Services during the excavations of a large mosaic in Rutland, UK. Credit: Historic England Archaeologists…
60 Years After It First Gazed at the Skies, the Parkes Radio Telescope Is Still Making Breakthroughs
Credit: CSIRO The CSIRO’s 64-meter Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31, 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio telescope in…
June 8, 2021 June 18, 2021 This autumn marks the 400th anniversary of a 1621 gathering of members of the Wampanoag Nation and European colonists near Plymouth,…
October 7, 2021 Novel geochemical dating techniques show that Norse people were in L’Anse aux Meadows exactly 1,000 years ago. Since the 1960s, archaeologists have…
Tikal, the ruins of an ancient city, is one of the most famous archeological sites of Maya civilization. The discovery shifts researchers’ understanding of the…
Harvard study says Americans do about 30 minutes less physical activity a day than 200 years ago. Study comparing 19th- and 21st-century Americans finds a…
Photograph of Legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull c.1885. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native…
Modern tree sculpture of a Viking. Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries beforehand, although exactly when…
The invention of bit and bridle eventually led to the evolution of armed mounted warriors like the one depicted in an Assyrian relief from 8th…