A woman buried with archery equipment in 10th-century Hungary is unusual but may not necessarily have been a warrior.

"This is the only example I could find of an actual penis having potentially been used as a ritual object," said University of Reading bioarchaeologist Ellen Green. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?

The surprising artifact could be evidence of fertility rituals—or just one of history’s strangest good luck charms.

A new archeological analysis by University of Szeged bioarchaeologist Balázs Tihanyi and colleagues genetically confirmed the sex of the individual found in a medieval cemetery in eastern Hungary, ...

"This is the only example I could find of an actual penis having potentially been used as a ritual object," Ellen Green, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Reading in the U.K., told Live ...

a bioarchaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, says in a statement. If left untreated, syphilis might cause symptoms including sores, neurological problems and ...

Cat remains found by archaeologists in Istanbul reveal that, unlike in Europe, cats were cared for in the Middle Ages in Byzantium due to the influence of Islamic culture. For his part Altan Armutak, ...

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Bioarchaeologist Celeste Gagnon, who works at a nearby site in Peru, told Forbes that the importance of the unusually well-preserved site goes what it reveals about human sacrifices in the past.