The Ancient City of Giddan/Eddana (Anqa, Iraq), the ‘Forgotten Twin’ of Dura-Europos,” identifies the city of Anqa as a near mirror image of the Syrian one
ForNet Research Project: how experts exposed Art forgeries in the early 20th century with the Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes journal
Humans occupied a lava tube called Umm Jirsan, in Saudi Arabia, for thousands of years: bones and artifacts indicate a timeline of herding and agriculture in northern Arabia
The first dating study of Pirro Nord, Italy, traditionally regarded as the oldest archaeological site in western Europe, indicates that it is probably much younger than anticipated
Indigenizing Archaeology: Putting Theory into Practice. A new book gathers insights, methods from rising generation of Indigenous archaeologists
Hazor, one of the largest “megacities” of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean was abandoned: its resettlement occured in the Iron Age
John Stone has found the request for two copies of Shakespeare’s Othello to be sent to Lisbon, Portugal, in 1765
A new research about the role the Milky Way played in Egyptian religion and culture, published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
The exhibition dossier “Tintoretto’s Portraits of Giovanni Grimani” is dedicated to the portraiture of Giovanni Grimani, patriarch of Aquileia
A re-evaluation of the Etruscan bronze lamp of Cortona concludes that it is a cult object associated with the mystery cult of the god Dionysus
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire.
Historical graffiti in the Doge’s Palace: thousands of drawings and inscriptions tell the story of Venice over the centuries
Early herding communities of the Southern Iberian Peninsula used a wide variety of livestock management strategies
Spears from the Schöningen open-cast coal mine have been examined and show that wood was a crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
Chickens were widely raised across southern Central Asia from 400 BCE through medieval periods and likely dispersed along the ancient Silk Road
Archaeologists put on their lab coats analyzed pottery from Neolithic sites to illuminate ancient culinary practices
DNA study IDs descendants of George Washington from unmarked remains, findings to aid service member IDs going back to World War II
Ancient DNA reveals the appearance of Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou, a 6th century Chinese emperor; the study is published in Current Biology
Movement of crops, animals played a key role in domestication, as a long-term gene flow between wild and domestic species was much more common than previously appreciated
Study reveals evidence of violence shortly after the collapse of the Chavín culture, a time of crisis in ancient Peru Analysis of skeletons…