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
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…
The dried milk brought in 1908 by Ernest Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition shows remarkable similarities with today’s milk
Museum collections targeted in the war on Ukrainian culture. A recent conference at Södertörn University’s Centre for Baltic and East European Studies brought together researchers and representatives
What Bronze Age teeth say about the evolution of the human diet: scientists extract microbiomes from two 4,000 year old teeth at Killuragh Cave
The reason for the proximity between Paleolithic extensive stone quarries and water sources: Elephant hunting by early humans
Scuderie del Quirinale presents Napoli Ottocento. Degas, Fortuny, Gemito, Mancini, Morelli, Palizzi, Sargent, Turner, a major new exhibition
Scientists uncover evidence that microplastics are contaminating archaeological remains Researchers have for the first time discovered evidence of microplastic contamination in archaeological soil…