Archaeologists and geographers from the University of Manchester have discovered hundreds of ancient animal and human footprints on a beach in Merseyside, England.
The footprint beds show that, as global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice…
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New study on how Viking beadmakers recycled glass from Roman mosaics
A study published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences reveals new manufacturing techniques on how craftsmen in Denmark recycled glass from Roman glass mosaics during the 8th century AD.
Glass became a scarce commodity during…
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Potential first traces of the universe’s earliest stars
Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the Universe.
Using an innovative analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope on Hawai‘i, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab,…
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Archaeologists give new insights into final blow of autonomous Ancient Palmyra
Archaeologists conducting a study to estimate the maximum productivity of the land around Palmyra are revealing new insights that questions the historical narrative.
Palmya is located in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. Archaeological finds…
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Archaeologist narrows down the time range for the Theran eruption
An archaeologist from Cornell University has applied a statical analysis to narrow down the time range for the Theran eruption in the Holocene epoch.
The Theran eruption, also called the Minoan eruption devastated the Greek island of Santorini….
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Byzantine solar eclipse records illuminate obscure history of Earth’s rotation
Japanese researchers investigated ancient texts from the 4th to 7th centuries AD to identify five total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean and improve the model of the Earth’s rotation over time
Tsukuba, Japan—Witnessing a total…
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Scientists uncover crimes from a millennium ago in extreme cold case mummies
How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains.
For example, a recent review of pre-Columbian remains found evidence of trauma from violence in 21% of males. So…
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Researchers find earliest known stone-age surgery from 31,000 years ago
Griffith University and a multi-national team of archaeologists have found the skeletal remains of a hunter-gatherer, whose lower left leg was amputated by a skilled prehistoric surgeon 31,000 years ago.
The discovery, published in Nature, is…
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Padlocked ‘vampire’ grave found in Poland with sickle over neck
Archaeologists from the Toruń Nicholas Copernicus University have found a grave from the 18th century, containing a ‘female vampire’ buried with a sickle over the neck to prevent her ascension to vampirism.
The concept of a blood-sucking…
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Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of…
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