Ancient history
An ivory Viking ‘king’ figurine unveiled in Denmark upends the barbarian stereotype
"I felt like a Viking was watching me," said the curator after rediscovering a 3‑cm game piece from 1796 in an Oslofjord burial, unstudied in the museum for over 200 years.
DNA confirms Yersinia pestis as cause of the first recorded pandemic 1,500 years ago
9,750-year-old ‘street’ found in Central Anatolia’s Canhasan 3 mound
A 12,000-year-old cold case: is this earliest murder recorded in Southeast Asia?
8,500-year-old village frozen in time: rising seas reveal a rare archaeological site in Denmark
€13.2 million EU-funded project recovers artifacts from submerged Mesolithic settlement, preserved in oxygen-free sediments after rapid sea level rise forced ancient communities inland.
Did farming begin outside the Fertile Crescent? 9,200-year-old grains found in Uzbek cave
Stone tools and ancient grains in a cave in Uzbekistan tell a new story.
Lost for centuries: Ottoman shipwreck packed with swords, pipes, and royal seals
A winter storm, a fiery end - and an underwater museum waiting to be opened.
Buried beneath Jerusalem: a massive First Temple dam and the ancient climate crisis that sparked it
A mystery of ancient engineering revealed - was this the answer to Judah’s worst drought?
Only the second of its kind: what this ancient seal reveals about Yaroslav the Wise
Experts are calling it one of the oldest Russian seals ever found.
Elite roman tomb found after 2,000 years - could it reveal the identity of a forgotten power player
The grave may belong to someone close to Emperor Augustus, and it still holds its secrets.
Lost Egyptian city rises from the deep
Divers uncover sunken treasures and a forgotten harbor from ancient Canopus off the coast of Alexandria.
Ancient interbreeding secret: why Indigenous Americans carry a disease-fighting Denisovan gene
One in three people of mexican ancestry carries the variant, which reached modern humans via neanderthals.
This 5,000-year-old cow tooth offers new clues to Stonehenge's origins
Isotopic data points to a journey from the Preseli Hills, possibly supporting stone transport theories.
Israel used money 1,500 years before coins were invented, study reveals
New research shows ancient traders used weighed silver like cash in a thriving early market economy.
Fire Clears the Way for Faith: Ancient Village Linked to Jesus' Apostles Emerges from Ashes
A wildfire near the Sea of Galilee exposed Roman-era ruins and early Christian clues that may confirm the true location of Bethsaida.
