After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...

Much of human history has been influenced and shaped by warfare. Warfare itself predates history, with the squabbles and fights […] ...

Buying a dishwasher can be dizzying. There are so many models, and they all have nonsensical names. Luckily, the fine folks ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

New analyses of the Hjortspring boat, a well-preserved prehistoric vessel, date its construction to 381-161 BCE. Material ...