A Roman coin hoard containing around 5,500 silver Roman coins, dated to almost 2,000 years ago, has come to light during excavations in...

Excavations at Karahan Tepe in Turkey reveal elaborate pre-farming ceremonial centre and a permanent settlement. Southeastern Turkey is...

The Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, is a beautiful archipelago of nine islands. But who visited the Azores first? Until...

When did Homo sapiens first settle in Europe? Conventional wisdom has long been that we arrived during the 40,000s, then replaced the...

Tomb of bureaucrat Ptah-M-Wia found at Saqqara by Cairo University’s archaeological mission. The Saqqara necropolis, the burial ground of...

Archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved slaves’ room in the Villa of Civita Guiliana, just outside Pompeii. Buried during the 1st...

Archaeologists reveal novel insights on life in Chaco Canyon, USA. Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, with its famed ‘Great Houses’, is one of the...

Yet more news from the world of genetics as researchers reveal what happened to the mammoth, and when… The woolly mammoth has long been a...

Geneticists shine new light on the Tarim Mummies of Western China and demonstrate, yet again, that modern perceptions of race are only...

Forget paleo-clean eating, here at Past Worlds we recommend the Iron Age diet. The prehistoric salt mines of the...

Scientists unlock secrets of John Dee’s spooky spirit mirror. The Elizabethan polymath John Dee (1527-1608) was, among other things, the...

Geneticists reveal origins of Etruscans. The Etruscans loom large in history, having settled in northern Italy around 1000 BC. They put...

Footprints dated to 23,000 years ago found in New Mexico, USA. The date of the first Americans remains one of the enduring controversies...

Ötzi the Ice Man was discovered by a couple of mountain climbers in the peaks above the Ötztal Valley in the Italian Alps in September...

Archaeologists find that Ancestral Pueblo people in the North American Southwest managed wild turkeys (Meleagris Gallopavo spp.) for more...

The Vinland Map, acquired by Yale University during the mid-1960s, was said to demonstrate that the Norse had landed in North America...

The dispersal of humans out of, and into, Africa is one of the great mysteries of the remote past, especially into Southwest Asia and...

The remains of a woman buried 7,200 years ago in Southeast Asia offer clues to lost lineage of humans. Archaeologists on the island of...

Human remains from Chilean desert reveals upsurge in fighting among first farmers. The Atacama Desert, which lies between the Andes and...

The maritime fur trade practically wiped out the sea otter populations of North America’s Pacific Northwest. But the otters, who are...