1+ week, 3+ day ago   (813+ words) Published Sep 3, 2026 9:03 AM EDT A little less than 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius became the antihero of the ancient world’s most well-known tragedy. The infamous explosion covered Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic debris, immortalizing the final moments of the ancient Roman…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (240+ words) Published Aug 28, 2026 12:30 PM EDT The weather forecast did not inspire confidence for Allied forces ahead of June 6, 1944. The thick clouds blanketing much of France and the English Channel made aerial reconnaissance even more dangerous than anticipated, while stormy conditions complicated…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (241+ words) Published Aug 25, 2026 4:02 PM EDT The excavation of an over 400-year-old grave in Poland revealed a burial scene that, although macabre, was likely orchestrated in the hopes of protecting local villagers. In the town of Pień about 60 miles east of Kraków,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (172+ words) Published Aug 21, 2026 2:55 PM EDT “It was very exciting to see similarities emerging across the different sites,” explained archaeologist and study co-author Alice Vinet. “At the same time, every arrowhead is unique: none of the incisions are exactly alike.” In 2019, one…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (243+ words) Published Aug 21, 2026 1:27 PM EDT Europe’s brutal heatwaves have left the Danube River at historically low water levels. Over the last few weeks alone, residents in Serbia and Hungary discovered World War II artifacts like Nazi motorcycles and sunken ships that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (228+ words) Published Aug 18, 2026 12:00 PM EDT Evolutionary biologists have long assumed that there was something about Neanderthals that could explain their unique skeletons, but a reexamination of two nearly complete pelvises suggests an alternative theory. After comparing the pair to dozens of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (278+ words) Published Aug 18, 2026 12:00 AM EDT “The detailed study of the bodies indicates neither chaotic accumulation nor a loss of the original ritual over time,” Carballo-Pérez said in a statement. “Rather, there was a spatial logic in which each new deposition was…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (288+ words) Published Aug 17, 2026 11:00 AM EDT Archaeologists in Denmark have finally pinpointed the remnants of a long lost 13th-century monastery, although its location may dismay local sports fans. With the help of ground-penetrating radar (GPR), researchers confirmed that traces of St. Clare’s…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (335+ words) Published Aug 15, 2026 10:23 AM EDT Now a dietary staple around the world, the nutritious potato was first domesticated by the Indigenous peoples of the Andes around 10,000 years ago. It turns out that spuds played such a central role in their diets…...