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Human History

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 History

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...

Human History

​The Sony Hacks Are Goddamn Terrifying

How the Sony hacks could have changed everything for us

An aerial, remote sensing image of the 6,500-year-old Neolithic ritual structure found just outside of Prague in the Czech Republic. Credit: University of West Bohemia
Human History

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...

The skeletal remains of a woman subjected to an "anti-demonic" burial in Poland. The ceiling of her mouth is presumed to have turned green from copper inserts meant to thwart evil.
Human History

Meet Zosia, the 17th-Century Vampire Suspect Buried With a Sickle at Her Throat

Archaeologists say the skeleton, found with a padlock on her toe and a sickle laid across her throat,...

A photograph of the preserved brooch, encrusted in textile remains.
Human History

Archaeologists Found a 1,300-Year-Old Viking Dress, and the Reason It Survived Is Surprising

The preservation was “absolutely magical" given the highly acidic nature of the soil.

A landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase unloads Allied troops onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach in northern France under moody skies on the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Human History

Reconstructed Satellite Images Show How Close D-Day Came to Disaster

Built off historic weather records, the new images show the surprisingly small break in the clouds that made...

Clara Granzotto taking a micro-sample for proteomics analysis from the painted surface of Mummy mask of a woman.
Human History

Scientists Find Unexpected Ingredients in Ancient Egyptian Paint

The findings suggest that the artists of ancient Egypt cared deeply about every step of their work.

Excavations at Simmering, Austria.
Human History

At Least 50 Men in This Roman Mass Grave Were Hit in the Same Sensitive Spot

Whoever attacked these Roman soldiers appeared to have a signature move: aim for the groin.

Divers swim over the wrecks of the HMS Tiger.
Human History

A British Warship Split in Half and Sank in 1908. Divers Just Found the Wreck

Miraculously, much of the ship remained intact, allowing experts to track down unknown details of the ship's final...