The fingerprint of a seaborne raider who lived over 2,000 years ago has been discovered in the oldest surviving plank boat ...

A groundbreaking AI study has uncovered hidden patterns in fingerprints that could upend over a century of forensic science.

Fingerprints are very rare for this time period and area,” said archaeologist Mikael Fauvelle of Lund University, noting the amazing find on Scandinavia’s oldest plank-built boat. Resentenced on a bit ...

Researchers examined rope cords and caulking material to determine the age of the fabled Hjortspring plank boat to narrow ...

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where some mysterious attackers came from during the Iron Age.

In the fourth century BCE, mysterious raiders attacked a Danish island. Now we might finally know where they came from.

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself had few pine forests. While it is possible that the pine pitch made its ...

A new analysis of the Hjortspring boat, an ancient wooden plank boat now on display in the National Museum of Denmark, has yielded clues to its potential origin — which has long been considered a ...

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...

In order to determine the origin of Theia, scientists led by Timo Hopp of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and associates at the University of Chicago examined isotopic "fingerprints ...