Ancient Maya cities were dangerously contaminated with mercury; a new article on the subject has been published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Archaeogenetic study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period
Climate-driven changes to food availability were a factor behind dramatic historical events that led the oasis city of Palmyra in Syria to its ultimate demise
Findings from Biblical times in Israel’s Timna Valley: 3,000 years ago, human activity destroyed vegetation and irreparably damaged the local environment
Archaeologist Sturt Manning (Cornell University) narrows on date of Thera eruption; the study has been published in PLoS ONE
India’s troubled history of monsoon droughts of the last millennium revealed by stalagmites and historical documentary sources
A new study has revealed the earliest known evidence of the use of the hallucinogenic drug opium, and psychoactive drugs in general, in the world
Archaeological excavations in Romania reveal a possible ‘projectile workshop’ of early Homo sapiens, which may have changed their subsistence strategies compared to Neanderthals
The Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Côa Valley and Siega Verde lights a faint match to understand our history as humans
An article published in Science shows the origins of donkey domestication Africa in 5,000 B.C.E, around the time when the Sahara became the desert region we know today
