Egyptian donkeys may have been incorporated into ritual burials – while local donkeys were part of the menu – in the Early Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, in present-day Israel
Early farmers in the Andes were doing just fine, challenging popular theory; diet data shows consistent food resources during the transition from foraging to farming
“Boomerang” made from mammoth tusk is likely one of the oldest known in Europe at around 40,000 years old, per analysis of this artifact from Obłazowa Cave, a Polish Upper Paleolithic cave
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
