Archaeologists uncover ancient mosaics on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, in the area in which the caliph’s palace of Khirbat al-Minya was built
The SS Mesaba, the ship which sent an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic, before the ocean-liner sank, has been identified lying in the Irish Sea
New research reveals that among ancient Mayas, cacao was not a food exclusive to the elite, but was important — and common — to all
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
Investigating the diploic veins in skulls with premature suture fusion: a new study has been published on the Journal of Morphology
Byzantine Solar Eclipse records illuminate obscure History of Earth’s rotation; a new study has been published on the subject in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
What ancient dung reveals about Epipaleolithic animal tending: a study about Abu Hureyra, published on PLoS One
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
Scientific ‘detective work’ reveals South American mummies were murdered; the study was published on Frontiers in Medicine
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
The Draughtman’s Contract, directed by Peter Greenaway, remastered by the BFI National Archive. Elaborate, stylised, enjoyable, spiteful and mysterious
The exhibition Technological advances along the Silk Road – Blown and Tooled: Western Asian Influences in Ancient Glass in China at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong
New insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots