DNA test defies long-held assumptions by revealing that a decorated Viking warrior was, in fact, female
It’s weird when a fantasy series for kids ends up beating actual archaeologists to a historical fact.
It’s weird when a fantasy series for kids ends up beating actual archaeologists to a historical fact.
234 years ago, Felipe Tupa Inka Yupanki arrived in the small Peruvian town of Collata to organize an uprising of native Incans against Spanish colonizers.
For all of the foodie-themed photos people share today, the world somehow lacks gratuitous shots of dormice being served for lunch.
For as often as my family checks out books from the library, I don’t think we’ve ever brought home any northern European furniture beetles at the same time.
Keeping potable water portable has been one of humanity’s big challenges.
In 1961, miners in Morocco found what appeared to be human skulls, jaws, arm and hip bones.
The story of domestication sometimes sounds like a weird version of the Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly.
5000 years ago, someone in Sumeria was worried they had “tooth worms.” It was probably just run-of-the-mill cavities, but people didn’t really know why their teeth could break down in their mouths.
Some of the first technology created by humans were sharpened stone flakes.
Normally I’m not too happy about my kids leaving their belongings where they’ll get lost, but a discovery by archaeologists in Norway has made me reconsider the value of lost toys.