Category: Human History
Confronted With Severe Climate Change, Ancient Britons Kept Calm and Carried On
Soon after the glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age, our planet was vulnerable to...
Supposedly Empty Egyptian Coffin Actually Contains a Mummy
For the past 150 years, the cedar coffin of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been on display at...
Dead Medieval Woman ‘Gave Birth’ to Baby in Coffin
Italian archaeologists have uncovered a Medieval grave containing the remains of a woman and a fetus lying between...
These Early Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter
Around 74,000 years ago, a massive caldera erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a prolonged and...
5,000-Year-Old Mummy Is Earliest Known Tattooed Woman
A new analysis of two ancient Egyptian mummies has uncovered the earliest known examples of “figural” tattoos on...
Scientists Who Doubt Neanderthal Art Must Reckon With New Evidence From These Sweet Cave Paintings
Cave paintings in Spain were produced at least 64,000 years ago, a full 20,000 years before modern humans...
Amazing Life-Sized Sculptures of Camels and Horses Discovered in Saudi Arabia
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered a series of rock reliefs dating back some 2,000 years. The life-sized...
Human Skulls Mounted on Stakes Found at 8,000-Year-Old Burial Site in Sweden
Researchers in Sweden have uncovered evidence of a behavior never seen before in ancient hunter-gatherers: the mounting of...
The Sony Hacks Are Goddamn Terrifying
How the Sony hacks could have changed everything for us
Archaeologists Uncover a Circular Sanctuary That Tracked the Sun and Moon 1,000 Years Before Stonehenge
Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have found a 6,500-year-old suspected ritual site built with Stone Age astronomical knowledge...
