7+ hour, 55+ min ago   (363+ words) New genetic research is raising fresh questions about the origins of Christopher Columbus, offering a possible link to a noble lineage in northwestern Spain. The findings introduce scientific data into a centuries-old debate over the birthplace of the famed explorer,…...

12+ hour, 35+ min ago   (929+ words) The powerful families who ruled the nomads of the Eurasian steppe some 2,500 years ago kept power within their bloodlines. A new study of ancient DNA finds that members of the Scythian elite were often close relatives, even when their graves…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (570+ words) WATCH: Mind-blowing archaeology discoveries which bring history back to life The study found the emergence of large states and multinational empires triggered a steep drop in linguistic diversity The world experienced a linguistic "golden age" several millennia ago when tens…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1437+ words) Memories of pandemics are often contentious. They can be disputed, uncomfortable and politically charged. As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to feel more distant, governments, communities and families have started asking how it should be remembered. Efforts range from personal memorials…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (458+ words) A new DNA study has completely upturned a long-held assumption that people buried together in Scandinavia’s Viking-age graves must be related to each other. Across the region there are many examples of graves from the late Viking and Middle Age…...

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2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1081+ words) How Ancient Humans Survived a World Built to Kill Them Fire, frostbite, hungry predators, and 300,000 years without a …...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (317+ words) "We show the old ancestors selected whole grasses from the wider landscape and carried them into Cloggs Cave to spread out in thin layers and burn," said Elle Grono, an archaeologist at Australian National University and lead author of the…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (685+ words) Ancient DNA is reshaping interpretations of family, childhood, and burial customs in medieval Scandinavia. In a medieval grave, an adult and a child lie side by side. For generations, archaeologists might reasonably have interpreted such a burial as evidence of…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (351+ words) Ararat-1, a modest limestone cave that lies at an elevation of 1,034 m on the eastern flanks of the Ararat Depression in central Armenia, has yielded a striking puzzle about how Middle Paleolithic humans moved across their landscape....