Nora doesn’t have the name recognition—or crowds—of Pompeii. But the well-preserved coastal settlement offers travelers a ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical ...

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for repeated prehistoric occupation in the remote island cluster of Kitsissut, north of Greenland, indicating the first people in the High Arctic were skilled ...

Long before farming took hold, ancient Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest were already shaping the future of a wild potato. New evidence shows that this small, hardy plant was deliberately ...

Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek geographer, was the first Mediterranean person to reach Great Britain and the Arctic ...

Asta — Asta's Latin and Greek origins hold the meaning of "bright as a star" or "star," while its Old Norse roots hold the meaning of "divine love," "god" or "beautiful" as a shortened form of the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A 7,000-year-old grave site in present-day Oman indicates that the ...

Around 2,400 years ago, a group of seafaring warriors attacked the island of Als, located off the coast of modern-day Denmark. The islanders successfully defended Als, and they ceremoniously sank ...

Italian centenarians have a higher proportion of DNA inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers compared to the general population, according to a new study that could lead to better understanding of ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...