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
The Self-Portraits of the Masters of Art History from the Uffizi Collections for the first time exhibited in China
Ancient DNA is rarely well-preserved in fossils, so scientists need to recognize possible hybridization of early humans from skeletons
Settlements in western Asia Minor, during Middle and Late Bronze Age, could be assigned to the previously largely disregarded Luwian culture
Medieval mass burial shows centuries-earlier origin of Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck; a new study published on Current Biology
Galería de las Estatuas in Atapuerca could be one of Spain’s most ancient Neanderthal sites; a new study published on Quaternary Geochronology
UC analysis shows Griffin Warrior from Pylos ruled his homeland: ancient DNA reveals the Bronze Age leader was from the region
Scientists say a shipwreck off Patagonia is the Dolphin, a long-lost 1850s Rhode Island Whaler. Tree rings help identify remains some 10,000 miles from home
Sahelanthropus, the oldest representative of humanity, was indeed bipedal… but that’s not all! A new study on the subject on Nature
