The first Roman fort with wooden defenses was discovered in Germany For the first time, archaeologists have discovered wooden defenses surrounding an ancient Roman military base. The fence topped with sharpened wooden stakes, akin to today’s barbed wire, is the kind of fortification known to have existed from ancient writings—including by Caesar—but no surviving examples …

Evidence of Europe’s first Homo sapiens was found in a French cave Stone artefacts and tooth pre-date the earliest known evidence of the species in Europe by more than 10,000 years. Archaeologists have found evidence that Europe’s first Homo sapiens lived briefly in a rock shelter in southern France — before mysteriously vanishing. A study …

Have France’s First Arrows Been Found? A 54,000-year-old cave site in southern France holds hundreds of tiny stone points, which researchers say closely resemble other known arrowheads — including replicas that they tested on ᴅᴇᴀᴅ goats. The discovery, reported on 22 February in Science Advances1, suggests that the first Homo sapiens to reach Europe hunted with bows and …

New Thoughts on an Unusual Burial in Sardinia The strange facedown burial of a young woman, who likely had a nail driven into her skull around the time she died in Sardinia more than 2,000 years ago, could be the result of ancient beliefs about epilepsy, according to new research. The facedown burial may indicate …

Archaeologists Discover Homes Of The Builders Of Europe’s First Monuments Made 6,400 Years Ago Archaeologists in France have found one of the first residential sites belonging to the prehistoric builders of some of Europe’s first monumental stone structures. During the Neolithic, people in west-central France built many impressive megalithic monuments such as barrows and dolmens. …

Archaeologists surprised when 3,500 year old arrowheads made of shells melted out of the ice in the Norwegian mountains Unique arrowheads made of freshwater pearl mussel have melted out of the ice in the mountains in Jotunheimen in Norway. Arrowheads like this have not been found anywhere else in the world, according to archaeologist. They …

This Wooden Phallus Might Be a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Dildo Archaeologists have uncovered what could be a rare example of an ancient Sєx toy carved from wood, found in a Roman fort known for a plethora of phallic motifs. The ruins of Vindolanda fort sit near Hadrian’s Wall in England on the borderlands of what was …

Oldest shoe in Norway, dating to 3,000 years ago, recovered from melting ice patch The oldest shoe in Norway — a 3,000-year-old bootie from the Bronze Age — is just one of thousands of ancient artifacts that were recovered from the country’s melting mountain ice patches in the past two decades, according to a new …

Reconstruction Shows Teen Who Died in Norway 8,300 Years Ago About 8,300 years ago, a teenage boy with an unusual skull and short stature may have scampered along the rocky coast of what is now Norway, pausing to regain his balance as he clutched a fishing rod. Now, a new full-body reconstruction of the Stone …