History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

Discovered another dinosaur with those crazy short arms (and that suggests that they really had a function)

For years, researchers have puzzled over why the mighty and fearsome T.rex was equipped with those wimpy short arms. But...
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History & Archaeology

Early seafarers reflected in genetics

Micronesia is a region in the South Pacific that is characterized by over 2000 tropical islands and atolls. © Norimoto ...
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History & Archaeology

THEN Podcast Episode 52 – The Biafra War

Tribal conflicts, massacres, military coups and the struggle for newly discovered oil...
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History & Archaeology

A richly decorated sword from the Viking Age

Richly decorated hilt of the Viking sword discovered in Gausel. © Cora Oschmann/ Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger ...
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History & Archaeology

Ancient DNA provides information about the ancestry of dogs

Dog skull and ice age wolf © Jessica Rae Peto/ Francis Crick Institute ...
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History & Archaeology

Genetic research uncovers the well-kept secrets of the world’s first navigators

Who were these people? And how did they live? DNA analysis reveals both important information about where they came from and...
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History & Archaeology

Netherlands: Roman sanctuary discovered

A ground plan drawn on the excavation site illustrates the dimensions of the Gallo-Roman ambulatory temple © RAAP ...
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History & Archaeology

Worms and crustaceans were the first to recover after the largest mass extinction ever

A new study reveals the remarkable resilience of inconspicuous small and soft animals. About 252 million years ago, something catastrophic happened on our planet....
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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...
Charlie Elliott -
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...
Alan Cannon -
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...
Charlie Elliott -
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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