Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn ~humanities.history Article 378 words 12 votes
Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark ~humanities.languages Article 413 words 6 votes
Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' thirty-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid ~humanities.history Article 824 words, published Mar 2 2023 8 votes
The National Museum of Denmark is paying tribute not to professional archaeologists, but to amateurs with metal detectors ~hobbies Article 455 words 3 votes
Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield ~humanities.history Article 616 words 6 votes
Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face ~science archaeology.marine Article 665 words 12 votes
The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard ~humanities.history Article 749 words, published Jan 20 2023 3 votes
Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research ~humanities archaeology anthropology ethics Article 2434 words, published Jan 19 2023 1 vote
Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century ~humanities.history Link 5 votes
World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing ~humanities.languages Article 476 words 9 votes
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why. ~humanities.history Article 5505 words 3 votes
Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall ~humanities.history Article 299 words 6 votes
'Hallowed space': Canadian divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship ~humanities.history Article 914 words, published Dec 19 2022 3 votes
The incredible Calypso: Jacques Cousteau's crazy exploration vessel ~humanities.history Video 45:26 7 votes
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb ~humanities.history Article 648 words 7 votes
‘Exceptional’ trove of twenty-four ancient statues found immersed in Tuscan spa ~humanities.history Article 788 words 8 votes
Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area. ~humanities.history Article 1587 words 13 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa ~humanities.history Article 463 words 7 votes
The treadmill/treadwheel crane sounds like something from Astérix or the Flintstones. But at Guédelon in France, not only do they have one, they're using it to help build their brand new castle. ~humanities.history Video 6:23 7 votes
These caves shouldn't exist. Or, at the very least, we can't yet explain them. ~humanities.history Video 12:37 10 votes
Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway ~humanities.history Article 573 words 4 votes
Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue ~humanities.history Article 2536 words, published Jun 2 2020 9 votes
Archaeology’s sexual revolution ~science archaeology Article 1891 words, published Jan 16 2022 9 votes
Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years ~science biology.evolutionary archaeology Article 1021 words 9 votes
Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept ~humanities.history Article 5829 words, published Nov 18 2021 6 votes
An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery ~humanities.history Article 4266 words 10 votes
Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time ~humanities.history Link 5 votes
High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful ~transport Article 567 words 10 votes
When orcs were real - The ancient struggle for homo sapiens to rule the Earth ~humanities.history Article 2247 words 6 votes
A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years ~humanities.history Article 321 words 8 votes
This robot has applications to archaeology, space exploration, and search and rescue — with a simple elegant design inspired by a plant ~tech Video 14:30 4 votes
Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say ~science archaeology Article 497 words 14 votes
Europeana contains over ten million digitalised artifacts from across Europe ~humanities.history Link 8 votes
Preserving Egypt’s layered history reveals 'stories of the restoration of diverse locations around Egypt' ~humanities.history Article 422 words 5 votes
The history of Yellowstone: Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans ~humanities.history Article 4979 words 5 votes
Exceptionally well-preserved thermopolium, a Roman-era fast-food stall, unearthed in Pompeii ~humanities.history Article 502 words 16 votes
Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine ~humanities.history Article 374 words 12 votes
This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo ~humanities.history Article 838 words 5 votes
'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest ~humanities.history Article 1064 words 11 votes