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“The results change the perception of who a Viking actually was,” said project leader Professor Eske Willerslev.

In his new book, “American Rule,” Jared Yates Sexton hopes to overturn a centuries-long myth.

The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.

Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.

Researchers figure out the function of mysterious heart structures first described by da Vinci.

A man’s skeleton, found facedown with his hands bound, was unearthed near an ancient ceremonial circle during a high speed rail excavation project.

Most of Stonehenge’s megaliths, called sarens, came from West Woods, Wiltshire.

Archaeologists suggest this may have been the Americas’ “oldest hotel.”

Addiction is not a moral failure. It is a learning disorder, and viewing it otherwise stops communities and policy makers from the ultimate goal: harm reduction.

The discovery pushes back humanity’s history with domestication.

Mapping the frequency of common toponyms opens window on Britain’s ‘deep history’.

Monuments are under attack in America. How far should we go in re-examining our history?

Artifacts uncovered in southeast Asia offer clues on early complex human cultures.

New book focuses on some of the world’s most peculiar borderlines.

Researchers discover a massive ceremonial structure of the ancient Mayans using lasers.

Expert opinion is divided on how effective riots can be on causing social change. However, these five examples show they can do something.

Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.

Numerous U.S. Presidents invoked the Insurrection Act to to quell race and labor riots.

That’s not frankincense you smell at the “holy of the holies.”

To get a sense of faraway places, these ‘atlases’ let the locals give you their perspective.

Inbreeding leads to a problematically small gene pool.

We’d like to think that judging people’s worth based on the shape of their head is a practice that’s behind us.

And after these 10 surprising maps, the Alpine republic will never look the same again.

A study by UK archaeologists finds that longbows caused horrific injuries similar to modern gunshot wounds.

New analysis of Apollo 17 sample reveals clues to the Moon’s violent history.

On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot and killed four students during an anti-war protest. The massacre went on to change American culture forever.

The visual languages of comics and graphic novels are great exercise for developing brains.

U.S. Army maps show how Western and Eastern Fronts met by May 1, 1945.

Many of the bathrooms uncovered at Pompeii and elsewhere were communal.

The best and worst of yesterday has created the economy of today.