Maggie Donahue

Sep 30, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Austin Harvey |Maggie Donahue

The Viking skeletons were so well-preserved that researchers believe they will be able to conduct DNA analyses to learn more about them. Over the past six months, archaeologists have unearthed more than 50 well-preserved Viking skeletons from graves found in Åsum, Denmark, near the city of Odense. Now, analyses of these skeletons could help to provide new insights into the everyday lives of the Vikings.

Sep 20, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Austin Harvey |Maggie Donahue

For thousands of years, people in Ireland deposited these butter slabs in peat bogs as a way to preserve them — and sometimes even buried them as offerings to the gods. An Irish farmer recently uncovered an ancient slab of butter by “pure luck” on his Donegal farm. The nearly 50-pound slab of “bog butter” is currently undated, but historians believe it could date back to the Bronze Age. In any case, this stunning discovery could be one of the largest of its kind ever found on the Emerald Isle.

Sep 18, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Maggie Donahue

The print has been confirmed as Albrecht Dürer's Knight, Death and the Devil (1513). Now, this rare find is headed to auction, where it could fetch tens of thousands of dollars. Thirteen years ago, an 11-year-old boy in England discovered an elaborate engraving at a dump site. Unaware of its value, he stored it in his home for over a decade before making the decision to have it appraised by an auction house this year.

Sep 17, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Maggie Donahue

Researchers examining human remains in a 17th-century crypt in Milan found evidence of cocaine use, suggesting that Europeans consumed coca leaves nearly two centuries earlier than previously thought. For years, historians have assumed that cocaine wasn’t widely used in Europe until the 19th century, after the German chemist Albert Niemann figured out how to isolate the drug from coca leaves in 1859. However, new evidence could push the timeline of European cocaine use back almost two centuries.

Sep 16, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Kaleena Fraga |Maggie Donahue

The copy of the Constitution was found on the former property of Samuel Johnston, who was governor of North Carolina between 1787 and 1789. The U.S. Constitution is one of the most famous documents in American history. But copies of it are rare. As such, it came as a shock when a copy of the Constitution was found tucked into a file cabinet on a North Carolina farm, more than 200 years after it was drawn up. This copy of the Constitution is one of roughly 100 that were created in 1787.