A soil analysis of a Stone Age grave in Finland has revealed new insights into prehistoric burial practises.
Archaeologists from the University of Helsinki excavated the grave of an adolescent child in Majoonsuo, situated in the municipality of…
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Researchers conduct ‘virtual autopsy’ of a mummified 17th century child
Researchers led by Dr Andreas Nerlich of the Academic Clinic Munich-Bogenhausen, have conducted a ‘virtual autopsy’ of a mummified 17th century child, using cutting-edge science alongside historical records to shed new light on Renaissance…
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Tree rings reveal devastating radiation storms
A study by the University of Queensland has revealed new insights into the cosmic radiation storms that have occurred approximately once every thousand years.
Known as a Miyake event, the storms cause a rapid rise in carbon-14 due to huge…
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Researchers discover lost fragments of the Hipparchus Star Catalogue
Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have discovered fragments of the Hipparchus Star Catalogue, composed by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus during the 2nd century BC.
The…
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Maya sacrificial victims found in the ‘Midnight Terror Cave’ may have been gagged
Blue fibres found in the dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims in the ‘Midnight Terror Cave’ suggests that they were gagged.
The Midnight Terror Cave is a cave near Springfield in the Cayo District of Belize, named by the nearby…
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Impact that killed the dinosaurs triggered “mega-earthquake”
66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs.
New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that it shook the planet for weeks to months after the…
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Ancient footprints found on UK beach
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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