Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant ‘harmal’ identified in Iron Age Arabia, according to a new study published in Communications Biology
Bodies previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, did not die in a single dramatic event
Archaeologist sailing like a Viking makes unexpected discoveries: Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took routes farther from land
A special issue in “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B” (2025) reframes the origins of domestication
Disabilities in the late Middle Ages: the skeleton of a man with a severe dislocated fracture of the knee, found in a cemetery in Lund, Sweden
In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered large portions of a monumental relief
Lullabies soothe children to sleep in many cultures, but not all of them are child-friendly. The lyrics can address such topics as dead children and unfaithfulness
Dating of Schöningen spears revised to 200,000 years; world’s oldest complete wooden hunting weapons are 100,000 years younger than previously claimed
Diversity Statistics of Onomastic Data Reveal Social Patterns in Hebrew Kingdoms of the Iron Age; a new study published in PNAS
Poetry from Ancient China tells the story of the decline of the finless porpoise in the Yangtze river, over the past 1,400 years
18th century Austrian mummy of Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg found to be exceptionally well preserved, thanks to unusual embalming method
The project “Visual Analytics for Images from Colonial Contexts” (VABiKo): an image archive on former German colonies to be made accessible with Artificial Intelligence
Bostik la bodega de d10s, a film by Mauro Russo Rouge: the “real tomb of Maradona” is located there in Naples thanks to Antonio “Bostik” Esposito
Edvard Westermarck’s Archives inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, honouring his pioneering work in anthropology and sociology
Coastal heritage is globally threatened by climate change, according to a new study published in PNAS Nexus
Women from Bronze Age Nubia already carried heavy loads on their heads, according to a new study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Neolithic agricultural Revolution in southern Levant linked to climate-driven wildfires and soil erosion, according to a new study in the Journal of Soils and Sediments
New clues from old bones: some Vikings were much more violent than others, according to a study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Tel Shiqmona, an Iron Age purple dye “factory” in Israel was in operation for almost 500 years, using mollusks in large-scale specialized manufacturing process; a study published in PLoS ONE
Ancient Auditorium Discovered in the Gymnasium of Agrigento; Archaeologists uncover unique ensemble from antiquity during excavations on Sicily
