Wild animals
Narwhals help researchers uncover unique data from the deepest East Greenland fjords
Mangler teaser
Introducing ToRS Grant Lab
We have just finished the very first iteration of the ToRS Grant Lab concept.
- History
4,000-year-old clay tablets inscribed with magical spells… and beer tabs
For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilisations of the Middle East – many…
- Archaeology
New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them
Using advanced machine-learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much…
- Litterature
We have forgotten the Bosnian War, but literature helps us remember
The Bosnian War (1992–1995), which claimed over 100,000 lives and displaced many more, is largely forgotten today. But powerful literature can evoke…
- Archaeology
Archaeologists uncover 5,500-year-old ceremonial site in Jordan
A research team led by the University of Copenhagen has uncovered a remarkable Early Bronze Age ritual landscape at Murayghat in Jordan. The discovery…
- Archaeology
Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery
Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican…
Many Greenlanders Face 10 Times Higher Risk of Diabetes – Exercise May Be Their Only Solution
A significant portion of the Greenlandic Inuit population carries a genetic variant that increases their risk of type 2 diabetes tenfold. Now,…
- Archaeology
Birds have been adapting to human activity for millennia
Roughly 14,500 to 10,500 years ago, in the transition from the last glacial period, humans harvesting vegetation from the wetlands of eastern Jordan…
The earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago
Written sources from Mesopotamia suggest that kissing in relation to sex was practiced by the peoples of the ancient Middle East 4,500 years ago. The…
