Lustre and Luxury from Islamic Spain. Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds is an exhibition curated by Filiz Çakır Phillip
It sounds a little like Stone Age standup: A Denisovan and a human walk past a bees’ nest heavy with honeycomb. What happens next? Study offers new insight on what ancient noses smelled
A study, an analysis of the large herbivore skulls found at Cueva Des-Cubierta, confirms that the Neanderthals possessed symbolic capacity
Railway made Swedish villages and towns greener: construction of the main railway lines in Sweden included a large-scale garden project
‘Golden boy’ mummy was protected by 49 precious amulets, CT scans reveal; the study has been published in Frontiers in Medicine
In an area plagued by periods of drought, it is difficult to understand how the great ancient city of Great Zimbabwe thrived for centuries, but the answer to that has now been found
A satirical work has been fount: to justify many of its arguments, it draws on texts by Elio Antonio de Nebrija
Rudolf Levy (1875 -1944) – Work and exile; an exhibition at Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi Galleries for the German expressionist painter
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new exhibit at the Wiener Library: the appalling children’s board game “Jews out!” from Nazi Germany
Agriculture linked to changes in age-independent mortality in North America New study is first to tie patterns of age-independent human mortality to food…
Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years in a quest to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death
Neanderthals are not the only species whose dentition is characterized by the possession of thin enamel: it was previously found in Homo Antecessor
Climate change may have impacted the rise and fall of Middle Eastern civilisations, according to an international study
Mummified crocodiles provide insights into mummy-making over time; the study has been published in PLoS ONE
In the Neanderthal site of Combe-Grenal, France, hunting strategies were unaffected by changing climate; the study is published in PLOS ONE
With the help of the analysis of ancient genomes, it has been possible for the first time to gain insights into kinship and marriage rules in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece
Ancient Siberian genomes reveal genetic backflow from North America across the Bering Sea, according to a new study published in Current Biology
Mainz University contributes to recent discovery of the temple of Poseidon located at the Kleidi site near Samikon in Greece
A new study, published in Science Advances, reveals average age at conception for men versus women over past 250,000 years
2,000 years of genetic history in Scandinavia elucidates Viking age to modern day; a new study reported in the journal Cell
