Dozens of sites linked to the Viking great army as it ravaged Anglo-Saxon England more than 1,000 years ago have been discovered ~humanities.history Article 668 words 8 votes
Archeologists look at how and when humans first moved into the Pacific ~humanities.history Article 222 words, published Nov 26 2024 6 votes
Archaeological dig at Notre-Dame unearths 2,000 years of history ~humanities.history Article 1148 words 12 votes
Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered using new tech - high altitude communities challenge previous consensus about life in Central Asia ~humanities.history Article 1032 words 21 votes
A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform ~humanities.languages Article 724 words 23 votes
Medieval Nubian fashion brought to life ~humanities.history Article 1202 words, published Nov 7 2024 13 votes
St Andrews researchers discover ‘King Arthur’s Hall’ is five times older than thought ~humanities.history Article 368 words 22 votes
DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were ~humanities.history Article 1047 words 17 votes
Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text ~humanities.history Article 18 votes
Lost Silk Road cities unearthed in Uzbekistan's high mountains ~humanities.history Article 750 words 15 votes
Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States ~humanities.history Video 23:22, published Aug 3 2024 9 votes
Archaeologists are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller boats around Scotland's west coast ~humanities.history Article 542 words 12 votes
Secret tomb found under ‘Indiana Jones’ holy grail filming location in Petra ~humanities.history Article 24 votes
Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark – a stone paved root cellar, which could represent a remarkable technological leap in resource preservation ~humanities.history Article 767 words 14 votes
Danish family seek to return Etruscan objects to Italy – Bent Søndergaard's children say they want to carry out ‘his final wishes’ and send back antiquities he bought in 1960s ~humanities.history Article 594 words 8 votes
Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings ~humanities.history Video 20:39, published Sep 24 2024 13 votes
Rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark were long believed to be comparable. A team of researchers now challenges that assumption. ~humanities.history Article 889 words 9 votes
Archaeology student unearths seven spectacular Viking-era curled silver arm rings north of Denmark's second-largest city Aarhus ~humanities.history Article 312 words 9 votes
Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds ~humanities.history Article 898 words 24 votes
How rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life ~science archaeology Article 3647 words, published Feb 15 2022 3 votes
Extraordinary Roman marble floor discovered in ancient sunken city ~humanities.history Article 464 words 14 votes
An archaeology of personhood and abortion: Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures ~health Article 476 words, published Aug 25 2022 14 votes
12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world ~humanities.history Article 759 words 16 votes
Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome hints at early humans’ compassion ~humanities.history Article 716 words 39 votes
Ramses II’s long-lost sarcophagus has finally been identified ~humanities.history Article 457 words 26 votes
Blacksmiths are reconstructing a Viking ship to better understand the secrets of the navigation of Scandinavian warriors a thousand years ago ~humanities.history Article 552 words 16 votes
The oldest art in Greece is not what you think ~humanities.history Video 8:08, published May 25 2024 5 votes
Alexander the Great's untold story: Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king ~humanities.history Article 438 words 14 votes
Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption ~humanities.history Article 453 words, published Apr 25 2024 21 votes
Pseudoarchaeology and the pseudoscience pipeline - Milo Rossi live at Virginia Tech ~humanities archaeology Video 38:23, published Apr 14 2024 8 votes
Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues. ~humanities.history Link 14 votes
Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent ~humanities.history Video 38:27, published Apr 1 2024 5 votes
New analysis of wooden finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago ~humanities.history Article 459 words 7 votes
Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue ~humanities.history Link 6 votes
Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed ~humanities.history Article 629 words 19 votes
Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts ~science archaeology biology Article 377 words 9 votes
Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers, genetic study reveals ~humanities.history Link 15 votes
DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia's ancient hunter-gatherers ~humanities.history Article 974 words, published Jan 18 2024 11 votes
Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark ~humanities.languages Article 504 words 11 votes
Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries ~humanities.history Article 578 words, published Jan 7 2024 4 votes
Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. Canadian scientists say evidence shows digits may have been ritually removed to appease deities or aid social cohesion. ~humanities.history Article 776 words 26 votes