History & Archaeology

Injured Triceratops appears to have clashed with congener

The theory that these combative dinosaurs used their horns to fight appears to have been confirmed. In 2014, researchers stumbled upon the fossilized remains...

Historical reference to an aurora

The celestial phenomenon of the aurora has fascinated people for thousands of years. © Gerald Corsi/iStock Colorful light phenomena around 3000 years ago: A...

Origin of the Avars unraveled

Reconstruction of a mounted Avar. © Ilona C Kiss After the end of Late Antiquity, the Avars ruled the Pannonian Plain in what is...

Stone Age people used olives

View of the entrance to El Harhoura Cave in northern Morocco. © Christophe Falgueres As early as 100,000 years ago, wild olive trees provided...

Did drought drive the Vikings out of Greenland?

View of abandoned settlement structures of the former European inhabitants on Greenland. © RUBEN RAMOS/iStock For almost 500 years, the Vikings had defied the...

Bones suggest the largest carnivorous dinosaur was a good swimmer

Clarity at last: Spinosaurus was probably excellent at hunting ill-fated prey underwater. the terrifying spinosaurus is the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered – it...

Colored skeletons in Çatalhöyük

Skeleton of a man from Çatalhöyük with vermilion painting on the skull. © Marco Milella The inhabitants of the Stone Age settlement of Çatalhöyük...

Beginnings of paleontological art

With the conversion of a pterosaur fossil into a "living" drawing, Georg August Goldfuss provided one of the first examples of the scientifically sound...

Archaeologists make remarkable discovery under battered Notre Dame

During restoration work, an enigmatic lead sarcophagus, containing human remains, was unearthed. France was shaken up in 2019 when their beloved cathedral, Notre Dame,...

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