Tag: Ireland
Bogs reveal millennia-old stories about violence and religion
Once, large parts of Europe were covered with peatlands. Only a fraction of those remain today. The bogs left are mostly part of protected...
13th century Book of St Albans digitised
One of the most finely illustrated medieval manuscripts, Matthew Paris’s Book of St Albans has been digitised by the Library of Trinity College Dublin for the...
DNA found in sediment reveals that ancient artificial islands were home to elites in Scotland and Ireland
Researchers have recovered DNA from the sediments surrounding ancient artificial islands, known as crannogs, in Britain and Ireland. These results, along with environmental and...
100,000-year-old polar bear genome reveals ancient hybridization with brown bears
An analysis of ancient DNA from a 100,000-year-old polar bear has revealed that extensive hybridization between polar bears and brown bears occurred during the...
Researchers home in on Thera volcano eruption date
A University of Arizona tree-ring expert is closer than ever to pinning down the date of the infamous Thera volcano eruption—a goal she has...
Research finally answers what Bronze Age daggers were used for
Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status,...