Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can now show that the Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia and took ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...

This tapestry also contains one of the only known depictions of a horned Viking helmet.

Swedish archaeologists uncovered a rare 1,100-year-old Viking coffin grave containing weapons near Linköping, describing ...

Researchers traced a genetic mutation that provides resistance to HIV back to a single individual near the Black Sea 6,700 to ...

Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that's true for early human ancestors, too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress on different parts ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago.

DAY in central London, a 44-year-old woman named Lucy Peel descended a slippery stairway on the bank of the River Thames to ...

They lived off the sea, consuming oysters. Today, piles of ancient oyster shells are noticeable to people like Holland-Lulewicz, trained to see anomalies in soil layers. In some locations ...

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Like sponges and comb jellies, humans are also made of the same building blocks of DNA. Today, our bodies rely on the ancient innovation of distal regulation to help create different types of ...