Nearly 35 years after the discovery of the one and only authenticated pirate shipwreck - that of the Whydah Gally , which sank in a storm in 1717 -, six new skeletons have just been discovered by underwater explorers, preserved in concretions. The researchers hope to be able to identify that of Blac
Geneticists have sequenced the DNA of an Inca child mummy sacrificed in the Andes 500 years ago. It reveals a significant genetic diversity, which disappeared with the arrival of European settlers at the time of the Conquest. The Cerro Aconcagua mummy, found in the Andes in 1985. Top left, lung fra
Roman coins from the 4th century AD, found in the ruins of a medieval Japanese castle, testify to the indirect commercial exchanges that may have existed between the Far East and the West from the earliest antiquity. Excavations of the ruins of Katsuren Castle, in Uruma, on the island of Okinawa (
Archaeologists from the Bergen University Museum excavating the Ose farm in the municipality of Ørsta, south of the countrys northwest coast, have found the remains of a pagan temple from the Viking Age. According to the museum itself it is the first time that a structure of this type has been found