5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (542+ words) Learn more about the Temasek Wreck, Singapore's ancient shipwreck that carried a record cargo of Yuan Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain. A trading vessel that sank in the 14th century lay hidden near the eastern entrance to the Singapore Strait for centuries. When…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (483+ words) Learn more about the landslide that's left some homes teetering on the edge of a cliff. The mayor of Niscemi, a small town in Sicily, ordered the evacuation of more than 1,500 people after days of torrential rain triggered a massive…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (662+ words) Learn how volcanic eruptions in 1345 started a chain of events that allowed the plague to enter Europe and start the Black Death. Before the Black Death claimed millions of lives across medieval Europe, its arrival on the continent may have…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (566+ words) Learn more about the giant nameless vulture that likely fed on dead megafauna. The place is called Giant's Path, and it's no coincidence. Remains of local megafauna had already been found in a stream near the city of Canelones, just…...

4+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (493+ words) Learn more about the archaeological discovery of an ancient elephant carcass surrounded by hundreds of butchery tools. In modern-day Italy, the closest you will get to an elephant is in a zoo. But 400,000 years ago, a large species of straight-tusked…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (384+ words) Learn more about the bearded vulture, which historically accumulated human-made materials such as strings, baskets, and bolts in the cliffs of southern Spain. Most archaeologists are human " most, though not all, apparently. According to a new analysis in Ecology, the…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (399+ words) The relationship between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is a point of fascination for both scientists and those interested in human history. Studies have shown that Neanderthals and H. sapiens mixed socially and biologically for thousands of years, and that we even…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (362+ words) The migrations of sperm whales are impressive, and so, too, are the travels of their teeth. In 2018, a team of archaeologists discovered a fragment of a sperm whale tooth at Valencina, a Copper Age archaeological site near Seville in southwest…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (417+ words) Cemeteries are more than just places where we bury our dead. They can reveal important details about a location, like the lifestyle, diet, and subsistence strategies of societies. A new multidisciplinary study, published in Scientific Reports, uses a Hungarian cemetery…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (961+ words) Footprints that stroll through a patchy area of Grecian beach 6 million years ago has caused researchers to rethink the timeline of hominin presence outside of Africa. "These are perfectly [obvious] footprints," says Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in…...