History & Archaeology

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

Charlie Elliott - July 1, 2022

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...

Charlie Elliott - June 30, 2022

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...

Charlie Elliott - June 29, 2022

History & Archaeology

Australopithecus fossils older than thought

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

Alan Cannon - June 29, 2022

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 - June 28, 2022

History & Archaeology

North America: Democracy 1500 years ago

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

Alan Cannon - June 28, 2022

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 - June 24, 2022

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...

Alan Cannon - June 23, 2022

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...

Charlie Elliott - June 21, 2022

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...

Alan Cannon - June 21, 2022

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...

Alan Cannon - June 17, 2022

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 - June 17, 2022

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...

Charlie Elliott - June 16, 2022

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...

Alan Cannon - June 16, 2022

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...

Alan Cannon - June 14, 2022

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...

Alan Cannon - June 10, 2022

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