Three protracted droughts — each lasting between 25 and 90 years — likely spelled the end for Indus megacities, around 4,200 years ago
Research into grape pips found from the excavated Byzantine monastery of Avdat (Oboda), in the Negev Highlands (Israel), hints at the origins of the Gaza wine
Fossilized soot and charcoal from torches dating back more than 8,000 years make it possible to reconstruct the history of the Nerja Cave
Searching for ancient bears in an Alaskan cave led to an important human discovery: Tatóok yík yées sháawat (Young lady in cave), living 3,000 years ago is in fact closest related to present-day Tlingit
Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium
Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site
The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins — which were imaged using a non-invasive technique — are described in a study
A new grammatical database, Grambank, documents the reveals accelerating loss of language diversity, in a study published in Science Advances
Allard Pierson starts international research on twelve mummy portraits, two from its own collection and ten from partner museums in Europe
Emma Smith will give a talk in her hometown of Leeds as the University displays its own copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio and its journeys
Ancient DNA reveals the multiethnic structure of the Xiongnu Empire, Mongolia’s first nomadic empire; the study has been published in Science Advances
Coastal erosion threatening archaeological sites on the Cyrenaican coast, Libya; the study has been published on PLoS ONE
The boom of fragile private art museums: economic elites are increasingly shaping the art we see, according to Professor Olav Velthuis
A new method to quantify and map at high resolution the presence of collagen in bone artifacts, the invisible protein that is essential for making radiocarbon dates
Early crop plants were more plastic and easily ‘tamed’: new perspectives on plant domestication are shown in a study published in PLoS ONE
The first direct evidence of ancient drug use in Europe, which may have been used as part of ritualistic ceremonies in Bronze Age Menorca
Germany was the principle source of brass for production of pre-18th Century manillas and, ultimately, the Benin Bronzes
By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly contributed to volcanology, by recording some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions
A new research now shows that a skeleton found on board the warship Vasa is actually from a woman; the ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1628
A landmark study on history of horses in the American West, published in Science, relies on Native knowledge
