In the fall of 2021, Jacob Geersen, a marine geologist now at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, was teaching a one-week field course at the University of Kiel. The class was conducted ...

[Related: Neanderthals and modern humans intermingled in Europe 45,000 years ago.] The Blinkerwall is about half a mile long along the Bay of Mecklenburg. It was initially spotted by accident when a ...

Scientists sat on board a ship off the coast of Germany and waited for their sonar signals to bounce back. They were mapping the seafloor when they noticed a mysterious structure. The scans showed an ...

In 2021, researchers scanning the waters of Germany’s Baltic Sea coast discovered a giant wall submerged beneath the Bay of Mecklenburg. Now, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery beneath the Baltic Sea has the potential to challenge our understanding of Europe's prehistoric past. The Blinkerwall, a 3,000-foot-long stone structure ...

Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure, submerged 21 meters below the Baltic Sea in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany. This structure – which has been named ...

In 2021, Jacob Geersen, a geophysicist with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in the German port town of Warnemünde, took his students on a training exercise along the Baltic coast. They ...

Scientists have found a giant wall underneath the Baltic Sea — and they’re pretty sure humans made it. In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the German ...

If this underwater wall could talk, it might reveal that it once helped Stone Age Europeans hunt reindeer. Submerged about 20 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea off the coast of Germany, the ...

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