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Lost medieval town rediscovered
Archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have uncovered physical remains of the lost medieval town of Hamarkaupangen in Hamar, Norway.
July 5, 2025
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July 3, 2025
Archaeologists uncover elite Hellenistic residence in North Macedonia
Excavations by the Museum of Kumanovo near the village of Mlado Nagoričane in the municipality of Staro Nagoričane have uncovered a Hellenistic-era residence dating to the 4th century BC.
July 2, 2025
July 2, 2025
Ancient mortuary cave found hidden within desert mountains
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered a pre-Hispanic mortuary cave within the Ocampo Natural Protected Area (ANP) in Coahuila, Mexico.
July 1, 2025
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ARCHAEOLOGY
July 11, 2025
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July 8, 2025
Lost medieval town rediscovered
Archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have uncovered physical remains of the lost medieval town of Hamarkaupangen in Hamar, Norway.
July 5, 2025
July 4, 2025
July 4, 2025
July 3, 2025
Archaeologists uncover elite Hellenistic residence in North Macedonia
Excavations by the Museum of Kumanovo near the village of Mlado Nagoričane in the municipality of Staro Nagoričane have uncovered a Hellenistic-era residence dating to the 4th century BC.
July 2, 2025
ANTHROPOLOGY
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Archaeologists find 4,500-year-old warrior burials in Saxony-Anhalt
Archaeologists from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered 4,500-year-old warrior graves linked to the Bell Beaker Culture near Förderstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
HERITAGE
June 16, 2025
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Preserving Madhya Pradesh’s legacy through historical conservation
The Archives Division of Madhya Pradesh safeguards the state’s rich history, heritage, and socio-cultural evolution. It preserves invaluable records that chronicle historical events, political progress, and cultural milestones, ensuring the past remains accessible to future generations.
February 3, 2025
PALAEOANTHROPOLOGY
November 18, 2024
Neanderthal remains found in Abreda Cave
A study, led by Dr. Marina Lozano of IPHES-CERCA, has found dental remains belonging to three Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in Abreda Cave.
November 29, 2023
Researchers suggests that early humans were hunting, skinning, and eating beavers around 400,000-years-ago.
October 23, 2023
A study conducted by CNRS has determined who the first modern humans to settle in Europe were.
September 22, 2023
Archaeologists from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University have discovered a wooden structure dating from at least 476,000-years-ago, the earliest known example to date.
June 23, 2023
A study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE has provided evidence to date the age and origin of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France.
June 23, 2023
Archaeologists conducting excavations in the Coves del Toll de Moià have uncovered evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism from more than 52,000-years-ago.
May 8, 2023
A recent study led by UCL researchers has discovered that Neanderthal genetic material inherited by humans has an impact on the shape of our noses.
February 9, 2023
According to a new study, our early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos on the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria, some 2.9-million-years-ago.
PALAEONTOLOGY
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According to a recent study, the portrayal of predatory dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex in movies such as Jurassic Park, with permanently exposed teeth, may not be accurate. Instead, it is believed that these dinosaurs had scaly, lizard-like lips that covered and sealed their mouths.
March 14, 2023
Palaeontologists have found the remains of an Ichthyosaur on the island of Spitsbergen, located in the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway.
GEOLOGY
June 7, 2025
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Buxton’s tuffa calcite terraces
One of Turkey’s most impressive geological wonders is Pamukkale (meaning "cotton castle"), renowned for its sinter terraced formations created by calcite-rich springs.
November 19, 2024
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How sapphires are formed in volcanoes
Sapphires are among the most precious gems, yet they consist solely of chemically “contaminated” aluminum oxide, or corundum.
July 3, 2024
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CLIMATE CHANGE
October 11, 2024
Archaeologists have found traces of a climate disaster 1500-years-ago that might have inspired the legend of Ragnarök from Norse mythology.
August 6, 2024
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The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.
May 18, 2024
Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought
Archaeologists have found that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
May 10, 2024
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NATURAL HISTORY
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The Qinngua Valley, also known as Paradisdalen (meaning “paradise valley”) is a unique biome in southern Greenland and contains the island’s only natural forest zone.
January 27, 2024
A study by the University of York has revealed that a tsunami wiped out prehistoric communities living in Northumberland, England, causing wide-scale depopulation across the region.
January 18, 2024
Scientists have established a connection between the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth and the oldest known human settlements in Alaska.
December 8, 2023
In a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, researchers examined a collection of baboon mummies from the ancient Egyptian site of Gabbanat el-Qurud, the so-called Valley of the Monkeys on the west bank of Luxor.
SPACE & PLANETARY
February 6, 2025
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The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.
February 12, 2024
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A study published in the journal Prehistory Works, indicates that two objects sampled from the Villena Treasure were smithed using meteoric iron.
November 6, 2023
In a study of the Earth’s mantle, scientists have identified two compositionally distinct continent-sized anomalies which could be traces of a protoplanet which impacted with Earth during its early formation.
October 23, 2023
According to the giant-impact hypothesis (also known as the Theia Impact), the moon was formed when a giant object such as a protoplanet crashed into the Earth when the solar system was still young.