History & Archaeology

Old DNA reveals the origin of the Indo Europeans

The Jamnaja and her ancestors moved west to Europe in three immigration waves from the steppes. © cany71 / iStock ...

Graves of Neolithic warriors discovered

Burial of the bell cup culture. There are two arrow tips in the discoloration behind the back, which is probably part of a past...

Old DNA reveals common history of sheep and humans

Vessel with two pockets from around 2600 to 2500 BC. © Norbert Shcimmel Trust, 1989/ Met Museum ...

Royal Royal Royal Shake tracked down

Bayeux's wall carpet shows King Harold while riding to Bosham, where he visits the church and celebrates in a hall before leaving to France....

Where Central Asia met Europe

A coat clasp in the style of the Central Asian Avars excavated in Mödling, Austria © MPI-EVA/ Benedict Seidl (benedicts.1995@gmail.com) ...

Pre-human Australopithecus was still primarily a vegetarian

Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein and drawing of one of the molars analyzed for the study. © Bernhard Zipfel/University of the Witwatersrand; Dom Jack/Max Planck...

Lithuanian-Polish royal crowns recovered

This 500-year-old crown had been hidden in the crypt of the Vilnius Cathedral since the beginning of the Second World War. Only now has...

Tomb of a court physician to the pharaohs

View of one of the painted walls in the tomb of the royal personal physician Teti Neb Fu in Saqqara. © Egyptian Ministry of...

Evidence of Moche sacrificial ritual found in Peru

Enclosure of the examined tombs in the “Huaca Cao Viejo” temple in Peru. © Jeffrey Quilter ...

Did lead pollution cause Roman IQs to drop?

Longitudinal samples of ice cores analyzed for lead and other chemicals. © Jessi LeMay/DRI ...

The syphilis pathogen comes from America

Skeletal element from the upper hip that contained an ancient syphilis-like pathogen genome. © Dario Ramirez ...

Oldest Christian testimony north of the Alps

This inscription was hidden on a rolled silver foil in an amulet from the tomb of a man of Roman times. © Leibniz Institute...

Early mixing of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals

This is what the early Europeans who roamed Thuringia and the Czech Republic around 45,000 years ago might have looked like. Researchers have now...

Hunting equipment reveals weaponry from the Neolithic period

Three Neolithic arrows recovered from Los Murciélagos Cave: arrow shafts made from reeds and wood (top) and details of bound tendon fibers, feathers and...

News about the production of the Nebra sky disk

The Nebra Sky Disk – a unique work of art from the early Bronze Age. © Juraj Lipták/State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology...

Footprints provide evidence of co-existence of early hominins

This 3D reconstruction shows the 1.52 million year old footprint of a Paranthropus boisei amidst bird tracks and, at the top left, a crosswise...

Was there a rock sanctuary in Athribis?

Access to the north tower of the temple pylon in Athribis, in which the archaeologists discovered a chamber and reliefs of gods in the...

Archaeologists find oldest alphabetic characters

These characters, carved into a 4,400-year-old clay tablet, could be the oldest evidence of alphabetic writing. © Glenn Schwartz/Johns Hopkins University ...

Bes vessels contained hallucinogenic drugs

Egyptian Bes vessel and its computer reconstruction. © Cassidy Delamarter Until now, archaeologists...

Oldest depictions of net fishing in Europe

This slate slab from the Stone Age site of Gönnersdorf shows a fish trap. The fish was first engraved and then given a network...

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