An artistic reconstruction of ‘Southern European’ Vikings emphasizing the foreign gene flow into Viking Age Scandinavia detected in the study. Credit: Jim Lyngvild In the…
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New archaeological research in Saudi Arabia documents hundreds of stone structures interpreted as monumental sites where early pastoralists carried out rituals. Image shows character of…
The heart and its trabeculae, first described by Leonardo da Vinci. Credit: Spencer Phillips Scientists show that muscular structures first described by Leonardo da Vinci…
April 2, 2020. (Click image for detailed view.) The winding Mississippi River historically has been used to define many state lines in the United States.…
Most of Stonehenge’s large boulders share origin in west woods, Wiltshire. Most of the hulking sandstone boulders — called sarsens — that make up the…
The leechbook. Credit: © The British Library Board (Royal 12 D xvii) To fight antibiotic resistance more antimicrobials are needed to treat bacterial biofilms, which…
The researchers worked for example with samples from an excavation in Oxford: A mass grave where more than 30 skeletons were discovered. One of the…
Painting by Israel Bernbaum, 1981. Oil on canvas, 70 3/8 x 82 1/4 inches. Credit: Property of the Montclair State University Permanent Collection, MSU 2011.003.002,…
A 1200-year-old smallpox-infected Viking skeleton found in Öland, Sweden. Credit: The Swedish National Heritage Board Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox in the teeth…
Researchers analyzed the genomes of virus fragments found on smallpox vaccination kits used during the Civil War. The kits are housed at the Mütter Museum…
This is a CGI reconstruction of Thomas Beckets shrine. Credit: John Jenkins Released on the 800th anniversary of the creation of Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine,…
Jules-Élie Delaunay, Peste à Rome (1869). Between 165 and 180 AD, the Antonine Plague caused the death of millions of people in the Roman Empire and far…
A slice of ground-penetrating radar data from Falerii Novi, revealing the outlines of the town’s buildings. Credit: L. Verdonck The city rises: Archaeologists have revealed…
This is an aerial view of Por-Bajin from the west. The complex is situated on an island in a lake. Scientists have pinned its construction…
Western cavity adjacent to Pudjinuk Rockshelter No. 1 facing west (note that the entrance to the rockshelter is partially concealed from this vantage point). Photo…
This image shows the skull of one of the individuals studied along with tubes for genetic and isotope testing. Credit: Collection: San José de los…
Swigert entering the LM Aquarius through the docking tunnel. Haise in the LM Aquarius making notes on a checklist. The crew of Apollo 13, Commander…
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia around 200 years earlier than previously thought. Colonization of…
Here is an artist’s impression of what the red light that streaked the night sky over Japan in 620 A.D. may have looked like. Nearly…