Enlarge / Conservation efforts for the shoe included careful reshaping and freeze-drying. (credit: Secrets of the Ice ) Sometime between 200 and 500 CE, someone crossing a high mountain pass in Norway discarded a shoe. More than 1, 500 years later, an unusually warm summer melted centuries of accumulated snow and ice , revealing the […]
Enlarge (credit: Sahoglu et al. 2021) Archaeologists working in what is now western Turkey recently unearthed the rubble left behind by a series of powerful tsunamis that will slammed into a Bronze Age city. The giant waves were triggered by the eruption of the volcano Thera on the island associated with Santorini, hundreds of kilometers […]
Enlarge / Rosvland used modern down feathers like these for comparison when he identified the species that contributed to the ancient pillow stuffing. (credit: Berglund and Rosvald 2021) Archaeologists have found the remains of downy pillows in the graves of two high-ranking Iron Age warriors in Sweden, dating to the 600s and 700s CE. Both […]
Enlarge Archaeologists working near the small Croatian village of Potočani made a grim discovery in 2007. In a shallow pit, just a meter deep and two meters wide, they found the jumbled bones of at least 41 people. Radiocarbon dating on several of the bones revealed that they’d been in the pit for around 6,200 […]
Expand (charge: Reuters) Archaeologists discovered the remains of two men lying within a subterranean area in a big villa in the outskirts of the Roman town of Pompeii, in southern Italy, Reuters reports. Dependent on the status of the skeletons and hints from asserted traces of clothes, 1 man seems to have turned into a […]
Expand / / Modern renovation of a Viking longboat. (charge: Dun.can / / Flickr) A current analysis of early DNA sheds light on who the African teams were and the way they collaborated with the folks they met. The Viking Age{} approximately 750 to 1100 CE, abandoned a cultural and financial effect that extended from […]