Tagged: research

– Recent studies indicate ice shelves in some regions of East Antarctica are melting faster than scientists had previously assumed. In East Antarctica there is a giant crater on the King Baudoin ice shelf. Through a unique combination of field work, satellite data and a...

One of the largest metallurgical centers of Europe – the Mazovia Metallurgical Center – has been discovered in Kanie village (Masovian Voivodeship), in east-central Poland. The settlement with more than 70 ancient furnaces for iron smelting, the so-called ‘bloomeries’ had its metallurgical activity approximately 2...

Almost 2,000 years ago, a devastating fire destroyed this Iron Age home near Viborg in West Denmark. Now, a team of archaeologists led by Mikkel Kieldsen, an archaeologist with Viborg Museum, Denmark, will try to shed some light on the history of this house and...

– When studying 3,000 million-year-old rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, scientists discovered that life in Earth’s soil is probably much older than previously expected. The results are controversial because they contradict our knowledge of how life evolved on Earth and when, but...