History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

Fossils turn out to be millions of years older than thought: did the first humans emerge from this South African cave?

The Cradle of Humankind, the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa are also known as the Cradle of Humankind. Hundreds of fossils of...
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History & Archaeology

Where did the dog see the light of day? It’s a mystery – but scientists now seem to be one step closer to...

Ancient wolf DNA, dating back to the Ice Age, reveals that dogs may have been first domesticated in modern-day Asia. After extensive research, we...
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History & Archaeology

Australopithecus fossils older than thought

Skull of the Australopithecus woman "Mrs. Ples". © Jason L. Heaton/ Birmingham-Southern College ...
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History & Archaeology

Archaeologists see 3400-year-old city of mysterious civilization looming from the water

Due to persistent drought, the city – which normally hides under water – briefly dried up earlier this year. What followed was...
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History & Archaeology

North America: Democracy 1500 years ago

Reconstruction of a Council House from the outside and inside. © University of Georgia Laboratory of Archeology ...
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History & Archaeology

THEN Podcast, Episode 51 – How the Thirty Years’ War led to compulsory schooling

Duke Ernst the Pious of Saxe-Gotha is the great-grandfather of most of the crowned heads of Europe. But he was much more than...
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History & Archaeology

Ivory trade from Greenland to Kyiv

In the Middle Ages, walrus ivory was a very popular commodity that was widely traded. © Amheruko/iStock Archaeologists have discovered strange bone fragments in...
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History & Archaeology

Where have all the soldiers who died in the Battle of Waterloo gone? Nobody knows!

Their bones may have been sold to be processed into fertilizer, an archaeologist concludes in a new study. It is perhaps one of the...
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History & Archaeology

What happened to the dead at the Battle of Waterloo?

Colored etching by Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. © poweroffforever/ iStock The Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 2022 ended with Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat and...
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History & Archaeology

Early Islamic tombs in the Levant

View of the excavation site in Syria © Jonathan Santana At what is supposed to be a prehistoric site in Syria, archaeologists have found two...
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History & Archaeology

Oldest fire ever: traces of 430 million year old fire discovered

It means that the first wildfire to hit Earth was at least 10 million years earlier than previously thought. Forest and wildfires have been...
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History & Archaeology

Surprising explanation found in Arab cave for the rise of Islam in the sixth century

Decades of drought in the sixth century AD brought chaos, political unrest, war and eventually the fall of the ancient southern Arabian kingdom...
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History & Archaeology

THEN Podcast Episode 50 (Bonus) – The Battle of White Mountain

The Battle of White Mountain on November 8, 1620 was the first major military conflict of the Thirty Years' War. It ended the...
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History & Archaeology

King James II’s frigate discovered

Divers measuring the cannon of HMS Gloucester. © University of East Anglia 340 years ago, the future English King James II almost died in...
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History & Archaeology

Early Iron Age swords

This sword, made of iron, which was modern at the time, was placed in the grave of a dead person in what is now...
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History & Archaeology

Europe’s largest carnivorous dinosaur discovered

The two-legged predatory dinosaur with a striking crocodile-like head lived about 125 million years ago and must have been at least ten meters...
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History & Archaeology

Mayan corn god sculpture discovered

Newly discovered Mayan corn god sculpture © Proyecto Arqueológico Palenque/ INAH During excavations in the palace of the Mayan city of Palenque, archaeologists discovered for...
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History & Archaeology

Where we see chicken nuggets, our ancestors saw an exotic bird that had to be worshipped

The idea that chickens have always been food can be trashed. New research reveals that our ancestors revered chickens for centuries. In addition,...
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History & Archaeology

The Maya also went to the dentist (for example to have gemstones glued into their teeth)

And new research now reveals that the surgery involved a lot more knowledge and skills than we previously thought. Decorating the teeth with...
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History & Archaeology

THEN Podcast Episode 49: Spartacus

For the Thracian Spartacus, rebellion was a sacred duty. In fact, he seemed to enjoy the succor of the gods. Only a...
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