Silver from the Islamic World Turns Up Near the Baltic’s Lost Viking City
A handful of silver coins found in a forest near the Baltic coast has reopened a much larger story — one that stretches from the Islamic world to…
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16 New Rock Art Panels Discovered at Sweden’s Tanum World Heritage Site
For thousands of years, ships and human figures lay almost invisible across the granite at Trättelanda in western Sweden. Now a new survey inside the Tanum World Heritage…
Ancient Cave Paintings May Help Unlock the Lost Language of Teotihuacan
High on a rocky mountainside in central Mexico, three faded red paintings are adding unexpected pieces to one of Mesoamerica’s enduring puzzles: how the people of Teotihuacan wrote.…
A Lost Church Near Erik the Red’s Settlement Hints at a Viking-Era Power Struggle
On the second-to-last day of an archaeological excavation in Greenland, researchers finally found what they had been searching for: a human skeleton. The discovery sparked celebrations among the…
Göbeklitepe’s First Burials May Solve a 30-Year Mystery of 10,000-Year-Old Human Bones
For more than 30 years, archaeologists excavating Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye have faced a disturbing puzzle. Among the ruins of its monumental stone buildings, they kept finding fragments…
A Search for Landmines Uncovered Korea’s Oldest Gunpowder Weapon
Soldiers searching for landmines on a mountain in South Korea stumbled upon something entirely unexpected: a small bronze weapon that had been lying beneath the soil for centuries.…
3,000-Year-Old Grape DNA Reveals the Phoenician Roots of Spanish Wine
Long before Roman vineyards spread across Spain, Phoenician sailors were carrying something across the Mediterranean that would change the peninsula’s agricultural history: grapevines. A new genetic study has…
18,000-Year-Old Ice Age Figurines Reveal a Secret Hidden in Mammoth Tusks
Some 18,000 years ago, an Ice Age artist picked up a piece of mammoth ivory and began carving a small human figure. The finished object was covered in…
A 1,300-Year-Old Burial Mystery in Gran Canaria Was Hidden in the Insects
For more than a thousand years, a cave high on Gran Canaria’s Acusa plateau kept the details of an unusual burial practice sealed inside. Now, the clues have…
Rare 2,600-Year-Old “Cube Tomb” in Italy Reveals a Corinthian Krater Used as a Funerary Urn
A ceramic vessel made in ancient Corinth more than 2,600 years ago has emerged from an unusual tomb in southern Italy, still carrying traces of the imagery that…
