Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas, the Vikings got there centuries before, being already active in 1021 AD
New discoveries in the Altai Mountains show that agricultural crops dispersed across Eurasia more than five millennia ago, causing significant cultural change in human populations
Recent archaeological investigations in the Tollense Valley have unearthed a collection of 31 unusual objects of a Bronze Age warrior who died on the battlefield 3,300 years ago
Which came first, the pigs or the pioneers? In Barbados, that has been a historical mystery ever since the first English colonists arrived on the island in 1627 to encounter what they thought was a herd of wild European pigs
The deepest layers of ice found in the Col du Dôme of the Mont Blanc glacier provide a record of atmospheric conditions and pollution in the Roman era
Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers
New findings reveal that hunter-gatherers took to farming already 5,000 years ago in eastern Sweden, and on the Aland Islands, located on the southwest coast of Finland
