Il Mendicante moro (“The Moorish beggar”), by the 18th century painter Giacomo Ceruti, has been purchased by the Uffizi Galleries
Cera una volta. Sculture dalle collezioni medicee (Wax Upon a Time Sculptures from the Medici collections): the exhibition at the Uffizi Galleries
Treasures of the Pharaohs – Ancient Egypt at the Scuderie del Quirinale, the exhibition brings a selection of 130 masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art
Stardust – A Story of Love and Architecture, a documentary by Jim Venturi and Anita Naughton about Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Ancient teeth provide new insight into the lives of the world’s first farming villagers in the Neolithic Levant; a new study is published in Scientific Reports
Casal Lumbroso: early humans butchered elephants using small tools and made big tools from their bones, during the warm parts of the Middle Pleistocene
1,000-year-old gut microbiome revealed for the Zimapán man, also referred to as Hna Hnu, a young man who lived in pre-Hispanic Mexico; a study published in PLoS ONE
Moai statues of Rapa Nui actually “walked” – and physics backs it up; a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science
Jamestown colonists brought donkeys, not just horses, to North America, old bones reveal A new study published in Science Advances about centuries-old horse and donkey bones,…
The real reasons Endurance sank — a new study published in Polar Record finds Ernest Shackleton knew of ship’s shortcomings
Research unearths origins of Ancient Egypt’s Karnak Temple, as researchers carried out the most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of the site
Between 14 September and 4 October 2025, a new excavation campaign was carried out at the renowned hominid site of Tighennif, in western Algeria
Farmers in the Rhineland were already diversifying cereal cultivation in the early Neolithic period, according to a new study in the Journal of Archaeological Science
Monumental camel rock art acted as ancient ‘road signs’ to desert water sources in northern Arabia during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
Times of Rise and Failure – TORF, a new DFG-sponsored Research Unit, investigates the drowned coastal landscape of medieval North Frisia
Europe’s oldest blue pigment (azurite) found in Germany, at the Final Palaeolithic site of Mühlheim-Dietesheim
Ancient fishing nets from the Jomon period resurrected from Shizunai-Nakano style pottery using X-ray computed tomography (CT), according to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science
How Kvemo Bolnisi, a 3000-year-old copper smelting site in southern Georgia, could be key to understanding the origins of iron
Why did Neanderthals go to the beach? A new international study has been published in the journal Scientific Reports
Charred adzuki bean remains from the Xiaogao site in Shandong, China, dating at the beginning of the Neolithic age, shed new light on the domestication of this legume
