Deep in the Swedish peat bog, archaeologists have recovered something remarkable: the 5,000-year-old remains of a faithful ...

A tranquil Swedish wetland has yielded a startlingly intimate scene from prehistory, where a 5,000-year-old dog lies ...

While the exact breed of dog is not yet known, it was a large and powerful 3- to 6-year-old male that stood about 20 inches (52 centimeters) tall. The dog had been placed in a leather bag weighted ...

Archaeologists have discovered a unique burial site on the shores of a vanished lake and the current Logsjemossen swamp in southern Sweden, which contains the remains of a dog buried with a bone ...

Explore the deadly precision of bone daggers from New Guinea, forged from human and cassowary bones for fierce hand-to-hand combat. Bone daggers from New Guinea. a) Human bone dagger attributed to the ...

According to a La Brujula Verde report, well-preserved dog remains and a polished bone dagger have been recovered from ...

In New Guinea, bands of brave warriors once used daggers crafted from bone to finish off their enemies in hand-to-hand combat. They expropriated bones from two very different sources – one was the ...

PARIS - New Guinea warriors harvested thigh bones from their dead fathers to fashion into ornamental but deadly daggers used to kill and maim enemies, sometimes to eat them. But why use human bone ...

Katherine Hignett is a reporter based in London. She currently covers current affairs, health and science. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2017, she edited a medicine industry newspaper and its ...

In the early 20th century, numerous tribes in New Guinea created daggers out of the bones of cassowaries and of humans. The daggers, used in hand-to-hand combat, were incised with elaborate designs ...

Scientists have discovered something you may not want to hear: human bones make great daggers. A team led by Dartmouth College in the US found human thigh bones would produce the best blades after ...