Mount Vesuvius Eruption Turned a Victim’s Brain Into Glass According to a new analysis of their bones, the remains of those trapped by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius tell a story of tragic suffering. The Vesuvius erupted and buried cities…
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Medieval Priest Buried With Chalice and Paten Unearthed at Lincoln Cathedral Over 50 burials unearthed by archaeologists in the Lincoln Cathedral included a remarkable medieval priest burial. A skeleton is believed to be that of a medieval priest found, who had been buried…
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11th-Century Scandinavian Warriors Found Buried in Poland The skeleton of 4 Scandinavian warriors hundreds of miles from their homeland was stunned by Archeologists in Poland. The remains of the 11th century were discovered in a peculiar burial site dubbed by the…
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Fossilized Insect Found Preserved in Opal, a Rare 4–7 Million-Year-Old Discovery A piece of opal from Java Island, Indonesia, holds some remarkable cargo: a stunningly preserved insect that may be at least four to seven million years old. Amber has…
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Ancient Irish DNA Reveals Secrets of Newgrange and Neolithic Ireland In the earliest periods of Irish history, archaeologists and geneticists led by those from Trinity have shed new light. The amazing findings of this study include an adult male genome…
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Britain’s Hidden Stone Age Rock Art Discovered in Northern England They have been found where the earth meets the sky, high up on the moorlands of northern England, a mysterious series of strange and ancient carvings hewn into the rocks…
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13-Year-Old Discovers 1,000-Year-Old Viking Silver Hoard Linked to King Harald Bluetooth When someone asked what the coolest thing you accomplished as a newly minted teenager, most people would probably have to confess something like “successfully pulled off a kickflip” or…
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Grauballe Man: The Remarkably Preserved 2,300-Year-Old Bog Body Found in Denmark Two years after the discovery of the Tollund man, another bog body was found on the 26 of April 1952, by local peat cutters in the nearby bog, Nebelgard…
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The 5,000-Year-Old Pyramid City of Caral: America’s Oldest Known Civilization Seventy thousand years ago, people lived all over South America. Six thousand years ago, people began to construct cities around pyramids, in places like Mesopotamia and China. The first of…
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700,000-Year-Old Petralona Skull Found in Greece Sparks Debate on Human Origins The “Petralona Man,” or “Petralona Archanthropus” is a for 700,000 years old human skull found in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of this skull, which…
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