The CENIEH in collaboration with CNRPAH leads a study reporting the discovery of the oldest Acheulean lithic assemblage found in North Africa, dated to about 1.7 million years
For the first time, it was possible to map the trade networks for metals and to identify changes in the supply routes, coinciding with other socio-economic changes detectable in the rich metal-dependent societies of Bronze Age southern Scandinavia
A new study published in Science Advances by an international team of geneticists, anthropologists and archeologists lead by scientists from the Archaeogenetics Department of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, helps illuminate the history of the Scythians with 111 ancient genomes from key Scythian and non-Scythian archaeological cultures of the Central Asian steppe
Archaeologists unearth huge Phoenician defensive moat Wide and intact, it helped fortify the defensive nature of the area, noticeably increasing its ability to…
A music archaeological study of ancient Chinese chime stones dating back to 2400BC to 8AD conducted by a PhD graduate from the University of Huddersfield has been deemed a remarkable achievement
A cremation pyre pit in Beisamoun, Israel, represents the oldest proof of direct cremation in the Middle East; dates as far back as 7,000 B.C.
Named the ‘Temple of Augustus’, possibly as a reference to the King’s full name, George Augustus Frederick, the site consisted of the 15 columns arranged in a semi-circle, and 2 parallel colonnades
A study, published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, deals with the possible uses of basalt tools at the Olduvai Gorge sites in Tanzania
A new study strengthens the hypothesis that the settlement of Europe could have been the result of several waves of migration at different times by a common source population
By the end of the year, these 3D reconstructions of boats from the ancient port of Rome3D will be housed at the new Roman Ship Museum in the Archaeological Park of Ancient Ostia