History & Archaeology

Origin of the Tarim mummies revealed

One of the natural mummies from the Tarim Basin. (Image: Wenying Li / Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology) Since numerous naturally preserved...

The first dinosaurs were much more social than thought

These prehistoric animals probably lived 40 million years earlier than thought in real herds. It is known that some dinosaurs that roamed the earth during...

Footprints Prove Humans Walked Around America 23,000 Years Ago

The footprints are the first undisputed evidence that humans were already found in the Americas during the so-called Last Glacial Maximum. Researchers write that in...

Torte as a contemporary witness of an air raid

Inspection of the cake that was buried in the air raid in 1942. (Image: Hanseatic City of Lübeck) In Lübeck, archaeologists have uncovered an...

It’s now official: the infamous Vinland map is fake

The map – which suggested that the Vikings already visited the New World before Columbus – appears to date not from the fifteenth, but...

Controversial Trachilos Prints Turn Out Even Older Than Thought

The human-like footprints found on Crete are believed to be at least 6 million(!) years old, according to new research. In 2017, scientists announced that...

Prehistoric ski discovered in melting ice

The ski complements a similar one that was already discovered in 2014. Together they form the best-preserved pair of skis known to us...

Vikings in America exactly 1000 years ago

Reconstruction of a 1000 year old Viking building at the archaeological site of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. (Image: Glenn Nagel) It is well...

Unlike living relatives, this bizarrely large extinct sloth was not a strict vegetarian

Surprisingly, he occasionally feasted on a piece of tender meat. The six present-day sloth species are all relatively small, vegetarian and especially very lazy arboreal...

Vikings set foot in America 1000 years ago

It was already known that the Normans arrived on the American continent before Columbus. But now we also know better when. Although Christopher Columbus...

Longhouses of the earliest farmers discovered

Reconstruction of a linear ceramic longhouse. (Photo: M. Steffen / State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council) Near Tübingen, archaeologists discovered...

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