Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe’s vanished coastlines.
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To trace forgotten Viking trade routes, an experimental archaeologist spent three years braving frozen Norwegian waters.
Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries...
A new study shows that pregnancies during the Viking Age were far from a private matter, closely...
Harvard had an Antiques Roadshow moment when a professor discovered that an original copy of the Magna...
Almost 2,000 years after Mount Vesuvius exploded, scholars continue to uncover extraordinary archaeological remains immortalized in ash...
A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual unwrapping.
A newly transcribed book about cheese from the 1580s offers advice on everything from when to eat...
Scientists found a mummy’s abdomen filled with wood and fabric—but it’s how they got in there that’s...
