DNA from archaeological remains reveals exceptional migration into Scandinavia during the Viking age
A new study using 297 ancient Scandinavian genomes and the genomic data of 16,638 modern Scandinavians resolves the complex relations between geography, ancestry, and gene flow in…
Archaeologists unearth a mᴀssive Viking hall in Denmark
Archaeologists unearthed the remnants of a large structure that was most likely built during the late Viking Age. The structure has been uncovered by archaeologists from the…
Mᴀss production of stone bladelets suggests a cultural shift in Paleolithic Levant
Analysis of stone tools attributed to the Ahmarian, the Near East’s first Upper Paleolithic culture (about 40,000 to 45,000 years ago), reveals that small, elongated, symmetrical items…
Ruins on Mount Tlaloc are actually an ancient observatory
A straight stone causeway on Mount Ttlaloc aligns with the rising sun on February 23rd/24th, according a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of…
Researchers reconstruct the brutality of death by multiple sword blows 700 years ago
A team of researchers from the University of Insubria and the University of Siena used cutting-edge technology to solve a centuries-old murder case. The team reconstructed the…
Canadian archaeologists recover 275 rare artifacts from mysterious Arctic shipwreck
Archaeologists from Parks Canada, accompanied by Inuit Guardians from the Nattilik Heritage Society, conducted excavations at the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror. They…
New study reveals that “Bog Bodies” may be part of a tradition that spanned millennia
An international team of Dutch, Swedish, and Estonian archaeologists has conducted a study of hundreds of ancient “Bog Bodies” found In the peat and wetlands of Ireland,…
Archaeologists find prehistoric headless skeletons in a settlement trench
Archaeologists from the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1266 of Kiel University (CAU) and the Archaeological Insтιтute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Nitra) unearthed the remains of…
Archaeologists have identified the Temple of Poseidon in Samikon
Some 2,000 years ago, the ancient Greek historian Strabo referred the presence of an important shrine on the west coast of the Peloponnese. Archaic temple ruins have now…
A well-preserved wishing well with ritual gifts discovered in Bavaria, Germany
Archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze Age wooden wishing well in Bavaria, Germany. More than 100 ancient artifacts have been found in the well, which is over 3,000…