History & Archaeology

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...

Interesting mining food 2700 years ago

An archaeologist looks at a layer of accumulated mine debris in the Hallstatt salt mine. (Image: D. Brander / H.Reschreiter / NHMW) Food produced...

China: Oldest mint in the world discovered

Long before such copper coins, there was a standardized currency in China in the form of spade coins (Image: SimoneN / iStock) The first minting...

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...

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...

Surprisingly exotic grave goods

Exotic hunting scenes adorn an ivory comb that is around 1500 years old. (Image: BlfD) During excavations in Bavaria, archaeologists came across surprising finds...

Censored text made visible in secret correspondence

Overwritten passage in a letter from Marie Antoinette dated January 1792. (Image: CRC) During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, maintained a...

A foreign construction complex in Tikal

Lidar analyzes have uncovered the traces of an approximately 1800 year old citadel near the center of Tikal. (Image: Thomas Garrison / PACUNAM) Mysterious...

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...

The “Giant of Segorbia” and the Reconquista

The "Giant of Segorbia". (Image: University of Huddersfiel) The DNA of a man from medieval Spain sheds new light on the radicalism with which...

Primeval form of poultry farming?

Are cassowaries ancient human farm animals? (Image: Andy Mack) Millennia before the domestication of chickens and the like: residents of the island of New...

New references to the origin of the Etruscans

Etruscan sculpture from the 3rd century before Christ. (Image: Daderot / CC0) The Etruscans formed a high culture in northern central Italy in...

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