Tag Archives: North Europe

Five essential things to know before boarding a P&O Cruises ship

Sailing from its home port of Southampton, P&O Cruises flies the British cruise flag with wallet-friendly holidays designed to suit UK tastes. It offers ‘no-flight’ cruises as well as affordable fly-by-night holidays to the Caribbean, Northern Europe, North America and the Mediterranean from London and nine regional airports. The line’s seven ships have Britons in… Read More »

Plague linked to mysterious disappearance of Europe’s first farmers

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. The earliest known plague victims in Europe date back about 5,000 years, but it was never clear whether two cases, one in Latvia and one in Sweden, were isolated and sporadic or evidence of a… Read More »

‘Vittrup Man’ was Denmark’s oldest known immigrant, 5,200 years ago, researchers say

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. About 5,200 years ago, a man’s life came to a violent end in a peat bog in northwestern Denmark. Now researchers have used advanced genetic analysis to tell the unlikely story of “Vittrup Man,” the… Read More »

Bones found in 8-metre-deep pit could ‘fundamentally change’ the history of humanity in Europe

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Microscopic protein and DNA fragments obtained from bones discovered in 8-meter-deep cave soil revealed that Neanderthals and humans probably lived side by side in Northern Europe until 45,000 years ago. Genetic analysis of fossils found… Read More »

What ancient bones reveal about the earliest Europeans?

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Microscopic protein and DNA fragments obtained from bones discovered in 8-meter-deep cave soil revealed that Neanderthals and humans probably lived side by side in Northern Europe until 45,000 years ago. Genetic analysis of fossils found… Read More »