14,500 to 10,500 years ago, prehistoric peoples harvesting vegetation from the Shubayqa wetlands of eastern Jordan created a habitat for birds
St Helena’s “liberated” Africans came from West Central Africa between northern Angola and Gabon, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
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
The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century
Written sources document that kissing was practiced by the peoples of ancient Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago
Research into grape pips found from the excavated Byzantine monastery of Avdat (Oboda), in the Negev Highlands (Israel), hints at the origins of the Gaza wine
Tree rings and strontium point researchers to the provenance of 400-year-old timber; the study is published in PLoS ONE
High-status Danish Vikings wore exotic beaver furs; identified by ancient proteins, fur was important as a trade and status item
The first successfully sequenced human genome from a Pompeiian n individual who died after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
Denisovans, a sister species of modern human, inhabited Laos by 164-131,000 years with important implications for populations out of Africa and Australia
