The lost Viking settlement of Linn Duchaill may have been found at last in Ireland. Three areas of the site have been excavated, and evidence of carpentry, smelting, and ship repair have been unearthed. “We are unbelievably delighted,” said archaeologist and team leader Mark Clinton. The other Viking outpost in Ireland eventually became the city […]

Did volcanoes wipe out the Neanderthals? Russian anthropologist Liubov Golovanova says that volcanic dust deposits in a cave in the Caucasus suggest that an ecological catastrophe may have been to blame for their demise. The seventeenth-century French ship La Belle, which was discovered in Matagorda Bay, will eventually be freeze dried at Texas A&M University. […]