An AI program trained to study the handwriting styles of centuries-old manuscripts from the Middle East suggests a different age of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Llamas may have been domesticated in the semi-arid North of Chile prior to the Incas, according to multi-proxy analysis of early camelid remains
New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human soft tissues, then demonstrated its capability on archaeological human brain samples
A sweeping study of 371 archaeological monuments, spanning 7,000 years, in the arid Dhofar region of Oman, in South Arabia
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
What Syriac scribes chose to keep: a digital dive into 1,000 manuscripts, with a new measurement called Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM) to track…
In-depth chemical analysis of three key 12th century medieval bronze doors by Barisanus of Trani uncovers which is the oldest and reveals how they were made; the analysed doors are from Trani, Ravello, Monreale
The LandCover6K working group looks to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia; a new study published in PLoS ONE
The early roots of carnival? Research into the Cerritos reveals evidence of seasonal celebrations in pre-colonial Brazil
Early Hominin toolmaking at the Melka Wakena site, in Ethiopia, sheds light on Engineering ingenuity; a study published in PLoS ONE
