Ancient Roman borders, such as the Limes wall, still shape well-being and personality today and have psychological and economic effects, according to a new study published in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
Oldest known alphabet unearthed at Tell Umm-el Marra, once an ancient Syrian city: the writing is dated to around 2400 BCE, Early Bronze Age
Chemists established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint in The Night Watch
Psychoacoustics: how ‘listening’ to archaeological sites could shed light on the past; a new study published on Open Archaeology
The first Dutch exhibition about mummy portraits aka Fayum portraits opens at the Allard Pierson in October
The boom of fragile private art museums: economic elites are increasingly shaping the art we see, according to Professor Olav Velthuis
Scientists warn: when restoring historical paintings, be careful with polar solvents; as reported in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
