Have you ever had a pair of really good socks that you repaired again and again as you just could not bare to throw them away? Archaeologists have uncovered such a sock that belonged to one of ...

The great streams of silver that reached Scandinavia in the Viking Ages – first the Arabic silver from Russia, and later coins from Germany and Britain – were for the most part converted into silver ...

A Greenland Shark has broken all records for the world’s oldest living vertebrate. The shark is between 272 and 512 years-old, which means it was born sometime between the French Revolution in 1789 CE ...

You’ve likely heard this question before, and as we know, some things stick in our minds while others do not. Right? Momentous events, like the birth of a child or the loss of a loved one, remain ...

Picture this: Almost 6,000 years ago, a girl walks along Lolland’s south coast and spits a piece of birch tar into the reeds. It didn’t taste great, but it helped to soothe her tooth ache. Fast ...

A Danish bog has been harbouring a terrifying secret for thousands of years. Archaeologists have spent all summer excavating a small sample of what has turned out to be a mass grave containing ...

Once upon a time, almost 14 billion years ago, a spectacular event took place. The Universe and everything it contains, including matter, radiation, exotic particles, and maybe even more abstract ...

Curiosity has driven many of humanity’s greatest discoveries. It has also, occasionally, convinced people to taste extremely questionable things. And perhaps no story illustrates this better than that ...

You have probably either tried it yourself or have heard of others who have: The Ouija Board. One or more participants sit across from each other with their fingers on a glass. Around the glass are ...

The biggest DNA study on ancient people rewrites European history. Modern Europeans were born in the Bronze Age after a large wave of immigration by a nomadic people known as Yamnaya who came from the ...

The world’s first large study into ancient cat DNA reveals that the earliest ancestors of our furry friends reached Eurasia and Africa at the same time as early farmers, and were later helped by ...

The Vikings plundered, raided, and eventually reigned over a large part of what is modern day England. But exactly how many Danish Vikings migrated west and settled down in the British Isles? In 2015, ...