Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century ~humanities.history Article 36 votes
For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo ~humanities.history Article 16 votes
The man who ran a carnival attraction that saved thousands of premature babies wasn’t a doctor at all ~humanities.history Article 33 votes
Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago. ~humanities.history Article 32 votes
The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be ~humanities.history Article 15 votes
Ancient Roman wooden water pipe made from hollow tree trunks unearthed beneath a street in Belgium ~humanities.history Article 23 votes