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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years ~humanities.history Article 411 words 8 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. ~humanities.history Article 8055 words 5 votes
An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon ~humanities.history Article 700 words 8 votes
Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark ~humanities.history Article 7 votes
Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea ~humanities.history Article 332 words 8 votes
Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex ~humanities.history Article 1007 words 17 votes
Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century ~humanities.history Article 181 words 6 votes
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge ~humanities.history Article 920 words 7 votes
How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone ~humanities.languages Article 354 words 9 votes
An ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar ~humanities.history Article 961 words 8 votes
Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it the oldest evidence of archery to be found in this part of the world ~humanities.history Article 1186 words 10 votes
Entire Roman city revealed using ground penetrating radar ~humanities.history Article 688 words 11 votes
Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico ~humanities.history Article 360 words 9 votes
Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them ~humanities.history Article 1066 words 10 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud ~humanities.history Article 8361 words 11 votes