Archaeologists have long sought to bridge the gap between the narratives of ancient texts and the tangible evidence hidden ...

Genetic analysis has confirmed a detail of an important Norse saga, telling us more about someone dubbed the "Well-man".

The wooden spade, almost 3,000 years old, was discovered during archaeological excavations by Wessex Archaeology.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old spade made of oak, one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever ...

With wildfires growing more frequent and more intense in many parts of the world, scientists are looking to the past to ...

A site found in Indonesia is known as the oldest known pyramid in the world. It predates Stonehenge and the great Pyramids of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed one of the ancient and most intact wooden tools in Britain, a spade dating back to 3,500 years.

“It’s made of oak and radiocarbon dating of the wood itself ... Ancient spades were mostly be made from wood, bone, or stone. These tools were simple but highly effective and were designed ...

So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting of the rise and reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who went on ...

Seven of the Well Man's teeth. (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research) Isotope analysis is a tool that can help confirm radiocarbon dating, but also information about how and where a ...