Emma Smith will give a talk in her hometown of Leeds as the University displays its own copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio and its journeys
Ancient DNA reveals the multiethnic structure of the Xiongnu Empire, Mongolia’s first nomadic empire; the study has been published in Science Advances
Coastal erosion threatening archaeological sites on the Cyrenaican coast, Libya; the study has been published on PLoS ONE
The boom of fragile private art museums: economic elites are increasingly shaping the art we see, according to Professor Olav Velthuis
A new method to quantify and map at high resolution the presence of collagen in bone artifacts, the invisible protein that is essential for making radiocarbon dates
Early crop plants were more plastic and easily ‘tamed’: new perspectives on plant domestication are shown in a study published in PLoS ONE
The first direct evidence of ancient drug use in Europe, which may have been used as part of ritualistic ceremonies in Bronze Age Menorca
Germany was the principle source of brass for production of pre-18th Century manillas and, ultimately, the Benin Bronzes
By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly contributed to volcanology, by recording some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions
A new research now shows that a skeleton found on board the warship Vasa is actually from a woman; the ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1628
