Ireland’s population was in decline for almost 200 years before the Vikings settled in the 10th century, according to new…
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Researchers say the fossilized skull, found in the late 1970s in a cave in southeast Greece and stored since then…
In 2010, researchers reported that they had extracted the genome sequence from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in…
Humankind’s tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch as researchers in the Philippines announced the discovery of a…
Jack Lieb went to Europe in 1943 with two movie cameras: He brought his 35mm black and white camera…
Archaeologists have discovered a Viking ship burial in Norway using ground-penetrating radar that suggests the 20-meter keel and many of…
In a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden, researchers have discovered the oldest-known strain of the notorious bacterium Yersinia pestis —…
Neanderthals may not have sported the barrel-chested bodies and hunched posture we see in museums and textbooks, according…
A team of maritime archaeologists, scientists, and surveyors has discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea what is thought…
Scandinavians during the Vendel Period and Viking Age perfected the large-scale production of tar, which helped to preserve their ships…
The horned helmets sometimes show up when Vikings are depicted in popular culture. Although most people probably know that the…
When researchers discovered the oldest human remains ever found in Poland a few years ago, they didn’t realize that the…
Knowledge of the diet of people living in the prehistoric settlement of Çatalhöyük almost 8000 years ago has been completed…
Researchers have reported the discovery of the oldest known drawing in a cave on the southern coast of South Africa,…
The earliest evidence for cheese making in the Mediterranean has been found in pottery from Croatia’s Dalmatian coast, according to…