An extensive, freely accessible database featuring 483 known Middle and Late Bronze Age settlement sites of the Luwian region, in the west of Turkey
Evidence of hallucinogens found in an Egyptian Bes mug, validating written records and centuries-old myths of ancient Egyptian rituals and practices
French women had more power in the Middle Ages than after the revolution, according to Erika Graham-Goering
12,000-year old stones from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel may be spindle whorls, a very early evidence of wheel-like technology
Stones and structures throughout Germany dating to the Roman period are being documented in a long-term research project, the large-scale online edition “disiecta membra. Stone Architecture and Urbanism in Roman Germany”
DNA evidence rewrites histories for people buried in volcanic eruption in ancient Pompeii; the study has been published in Current Biology
15,800-year-old engraved plaquettes from the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, located in modern-day Germany, depict fishing techniques, including the use of nets, not previously known in the Upper Paleolithic
The article The Gendered Construction of the Japanese Language-Learning Boom in Postcolonial Korea is published in the Asian Studies journal
The burial chamber and grave goods of the ancient Egyptian Priestess Idy have been discovered in the Egyptian necropolis of Asyut
The origin of writing in Mesopotamia is tied to designs engraved on ancient cylinder seals; the study has been published in Antiquity
