According to a Science in Poland report, Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław and Piotr Osypiński of the Polish ...

According to a VN Express report, the remains of 32 Vietnamese soldiers and wartime artifacts were discovered in Vietnam’s Central Highlands during the construction of a house. The family building the ...

As much as 100,000 years ago, modern humans in southern Africa began to settle down. Just how and why this momentous shift in our distant ancestors’ way of life occurred is difficult for ...

The woeful state of Viking bathrooms could be a factor behind smokers’ coughs in Scandinavia. Sometimes in human evolution, populations adapt in ways that aren’t always beneficial in the long run.

For millennia, hunter-gatherers living around Lake Superior created utilitarian objects such as projectile points, knife blades, and awls out of copper. Today, these Archaic period societies are ...

Side-scan sonar image of archaeological site 1Ba704, the wreck of Clotilda. The dotted lines show the ship’s stern and full projected length. Having been enlisted to lead the project to try to ...

Sixteen of the mysterious geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines depict birds—more than any other type of plant or animal. A team of researchers from Japan recently set out to determine which bird ...

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...

DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND—According to a report in The Belfast Telegraph, an excavation conducted in what is now the center of Derry uncovered city walls constructed between 1613 and 1619.

WATERLOO, BELGIUM—The Independent reports that a trench containing human and animal remains has been excavated at the site of a British field hospital at Mont-Saint-Jean farm in Belgium by ...