Cold War satellite imagery reveals 396 previously undocumented Roman forts in Mesopotamia, from western Syria to northwestern Iraq
Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built: in the 12,000 years before antiquity, the share of violent death rose at first and then fell back
Archaeometallurgists have been debating the exact origin of tin used in the Bronze Age for 150 years; a new study in Frontiers in Earth Science
Ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick coming from the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, in the ancient city of Kalhu, reveals a time capsule of plant life
A new Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, MagEIA – Magic between Entanglement, Interaction, and Analogy
Genomics and archaeology rewrite the Neolithic Revolution in the Maghreb, according to a new study published in Nature
A team from Goethe University Frankfurt was searching for charcoal and found 4,300-year-old copper ingots, during a routine excavation in Oman
Early toilets reveal dysentery from Giardia duodenalis in Old Testament Jerusalem, at the times of the biblical Kingdom of Judah
Written sources document that kissing was practiced by the peoples of ancient Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago
In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, a massive effort of genome-wide sequencing shows the lively genetic history of the Southern Arc region
