Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
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A tiny metal printing letter discovered beneath the historic center of Tartu, Estonia, may have belonged to one of the Baltic region’s earliest university printing presses. Measuring just 6 millimeters…
For more than four centuries, people in Mostar crossed the Neretva River on the same stone arch. On November 9, 1993, that familiar passage collapsed…
A dry river valley in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert has yielded nearly 100 prehistoric stone handaxes, some discovered alongside debris left by the people who made…
Archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old cemetery containing 14 human graves and two horse burials in a former Roman residential quarter at Horbourg-Wihr, northeastern France. Richly…
An Iron Age well in southern England still bears an unusual repair: a wooden shovel blade used to support its damaged side. It is one…
In AD 43, Roman soldiers preparing to invade Britain refused to cross the English Channel. According to the historian Cassius Dio, the troops even mocked…
For decades, archaeologists knew of only two possible examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art in Catalonia, northeastern Spain. One had been stolen, while the human…
A man buried in a wooden boat on Germany’s North Sea coast nearly 1,600 years ago was accompanied by a carved wooden throne and objects…
A brass combination lock associated with a merchant ship wrecked on the Welsh coast in 1583 has finally been opened after researchers discovered its four-letter…
DNA recovered from a 30,000-year-old woman in southwestern France has revealed unexpected genetic connections between Ice Age populations previously considered largely separate. Her ancestry suggests…
Archaeologists investigating a 1596 Ottoman battlefield in Hungary have discovered a Bronze Age hoard more than 3,000 years old. The find at Mezőkeresztes includes a…
An adult buried in a seated position inside a narrow, well-like grave and a human-shaped menhir are among the discoveries at a Neolithic cemetery near…
The horses and wild cattle engraved on the rocks of Portugal’s Côa Valley have survived for thousands of years as outlines carved into stone. But…
