Near Parabita, a town in the province of Lecce, in the heel of Italy’s boot (the region of Apulia, also spelled Puglia), a limestone cave holds a piece of Ice Age history. Two small bone figurines found there in 1966 belong to the group known as the Palaeolithic Venus figurines. Now a new survey suggests […]
In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer right below it belongs to the hunters who lived there before them. The cave is called Tina Jama. It opens near the summit of Mount Lanaro/Volnik, in the municipality of Sgonico/Zgonik, […]
For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world’s political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch. It was called Dahala Khagrabari (enclave number 51) and it belonged to India. It sat inside a piece of Bangladesh, which lay inside a pocket of Indian territory, which was itself […]
Durante décadas, uno de los lugares más raros del mapa político del mundo fue una parcela de cultivo de menos de una hectárea. Se llamaba Dahala Khagrabari (enclave número 51), pertenecía a India y estaba rodeada por un trozo de Bangladés, que a su vez estaba dentro de una bolsa de territorio indio, que a […]
En 2016, el paleontólogo David DeMar Jr. avanzaba a gatas por un afloramiento rocoso en el noreste de Montana, buscando fósiles de peces, cuando se topó con un nódulo oscuro, de un tono entre marrón y rojizo, del tamaño aproximado de una cereza grande. Lo recogió, lo observó con una lupa de mano y, en […]
Deep inside Ojo Guareña, one of the largest cave systems in Europe, in the northern Spanish province of Burgos, archaeologists have spent eleven consecutive summers digging through a single Neanderthal layer. This year’s season, which wrapped up in late August 2026, pushed the excavated area of that layer — known as level 4D — to […]
An international team has re-examined close to a thousand human bones from the caves of Malalmuerzo, Carigüela, and Majolicas, applying direct radiocarbon dating and modern taphonomic analysis — the study of everything that happens to a bone between death and excavation — to material that was first pulled from the ground in the 1970s. The […]
A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists, and geologists has unearthed a 17th-century tomb in the Pień cemetery, in north-central Poland, that defies all funeral norms of the time. It is the grave of a woman between 17 and 19 years old, buried with two iron objects that, due to their placement and symbolism, reveal […]
Despite the red flags warning of dangerous weather conditions placed on a beach in Chania on the island of Crete, a tourist entered the water risking her own life as well as the lives of those who rushed to rescue her. The 60-year-old woman ignored the warning red flags im Kavros beach in Apokoronas and […]
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