When Michael Jacobs first laid eyes on a canoe his ancestors expertly crafted a millennium ago, he says he "couldn't do nothing but cry." Jacobs is the chief of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe in southeastern North Carolina, where a team of archaeologists and tribe members and local residents recently pulled a 1,000-year-old canoe from the water.

Marine archaeologists believe the ship dates to sometime between 1300 – 1850. It was found at the bottom of the lake Mjøsa, at 410 metres.

The pommel, which is about 1,300 years old, was found in 2019 by a metal detectorist near Stirling.

The seven pairs of pants open a portal into life in the Castle Dome mining district

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has issued a formal apology to the estimated 4,000 people accused of witchcraft in the country between the 16th and 18th centuries, reports BBC News. Charged with violating the Witchcraft Act, which was passed in 1563 and repealed in 1736, most of the individuals targeted were women. According to the University of Edinburgh’s Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, two-thirds of those accused (around 2,500 people) were executed.

What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

Chemical and petrographic analysis bolsters earlier stratigraphic findings.

The Ipogeo dei Cristallini's well-preserved tombs will open to the public as soon as summer 2022

Egyptian scientists have unwrapped a 3,500-year-old royal mummy without peeling away a single layer of embalming linen.

These unfinished tales still flummox historians, scientists, artists, and chefs.

Analysis of the mummy of a nobleman from the Age of the Pyramids suggests that expensive resins and fine linens were used, surprising experts.

The 13th-century pages, found by chance at a British library, show a different side of Merlin, the magician who advised Camelot's king

An anonymous bidder has purchased Picture Cave, a Missouri cave system filled with 1,000-year-old Native American artwork, for $2.2 million. Held by St. Louis–based Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, the sale went forward despite the Osage Nation’s efforts to block it, reports Jim Salter for the Associated Press (AP).

Fossilised footprints, and more rarely, hand prints, can be found around the world; left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of geological preservation. In new research our international team have discovered ancient hand and footprints high on the Tibetan plateau made by children.

Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing better sources.

Jørgen Brønlund's diary contained information that wasn't written on the page.

The find suggests there may be truth behind legends of Amazons

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