A new genetic study has found that residents of Mesa Mani in southern Greece form a unique genetic “island” in Europe, shaped ...

Long before classical writers dismissed the far north as a barbarian backwater, Scandinavia was powering a vast Bronze Age network built on amber, seafaring, and elite warrior culture. This is the ...

A new study study has revealed that the DNA of the inhabitants of Mesa Mani (Inner Mani) constitutes a unique "genetic island ...

For more than 200 years, Nordic Bronze Age rock art has sparked the interest of academics. Yet we still know surprisingly ...

The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history. The study has been published in the ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people. Another, ...

In August 2025, archaeologists from Museum Vestsjælland unearthed two ornate iron spears decorated with gold inlays near Boeslunde in southwest Zealand, Denmark. These remarkable weapons have been ...

A survey of archaeological sites in western Turkey has identified hundreds of large towns that thrived there during the Bronze Age – potentially supporting the controversial idea that the area was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were ...

Excavations of a lost city in Kazakhstan date the site to 1600 B.C.E. and show a remarkably and surprisingly well-developed urban center. The city of Semiyarka was likely a regional center for the ...

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...