Diverse livelihoods helped Levänluhta people survive a climate disaster
A multidisciplinary research group coordinated by the University of Helsinki dated the bones of dozens of Iron Age residents of the Levänluhta site in Finland.
Progress of works in Amphipolis
Lina Mendoni requested a speeding up of procedures related to preparations of the static assessment and geotechnical study of the monument at the Kasta Tomb.
X-ray analysis sheds light on artefacts from Henry VIII’s warship
21st century X-ray technology has allowed University of Warwick scientists to peer back through time at the production of the armour worn by the crew of Henry VIII’s favoured warship, the Mary Rose.
Study traces spread of early dairy farming across Western Europe
A study has tracked the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to early farming that occurred in prehistoric Europe over a period of around 1,500 years.
Bronze Age swords bear the marks of skilled fighters
Warriors during the Bronze Age used their weapons in skilful ways that would have required lots of training in specific techniques, researchers say.
Ottoman archives record the first meteorite victim
Stories of people killed by "stones that fell from the sky" date back to biblical times, but fewsuch cases have really been confirmed in modern times.
Rich burial of a teenage girl discovered in Egypt’s Dra Abu El Naga
The rich burial of a teenage girl was discovered in Egypt’s Dra Aby El Naga (West Bank, Luxor) by the Spanish-Egyptian mission working on the site.
Theopetra Cave is to reopen to the public
Its operation had been suspended in June 2016 because of rockfalls in front of the cave entrance.
Contemporary Curated Realises the Highest Ever Total for an Online Sale
Online bidding battle takes George Condo's Quasi-Human Portrait to £1million / $1.3million - the highest price realised for a painting in an online sale at Sotheby's.
Residents of prehistoric settlements were buried in their own homes
Residents of an 8,000-year-old prehistoric proto-city could be buried in the houses where they lived, according to grim new research.
Promiscuity in the Paleozoic
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University researchers have used the chromosomes of living animals to uncover clues about our past.
Florida’s Mound Key as location of elusive Spanish fort
Florida and Georgia archaeologists have discovered the location of Fort San Antón de Carlos, home of one of the first Jesuit missions in North America.
Giant teenage shark from the Dinosaur-era
Fossil vertebrae give insights into growth and extinction of an enigmatic shark group.
Icelandic DNA jigsaw-puzzle brings new knowledge about Neanderthals
An international team of researchers has put together a new image of Neanderthals based on the genes Neanderthals left in the DNA of modern humans when they had children with them about 50,000 years ago.
Works are progressing in the former royal estate of Tatoi
The draft of the Feasibility and Sustainability study was presented with an analysis of the estate’s basic features.
Free online courses from the MoMA
“Seeing through photography”, “In the studio: postwar abstract painting”, “Modern art and ideas” are some of the topics.
Study sheds light on unique culinary traditions of hunter-gatherers
Hunter-gatherer groups living in the Baltic between seven and a half and six thousand years ago had culturally distinct cuisines, analysis of ancient pottery fragments has revealed.
Neolithic genomes from Switzerland indicate parallel ancient societies
Genetic analysis of 96 ancient individuals traces the arrival and demographic structure of peoples with Steppe-related ancestry into late Neolithic, early Bronze Age Switzerland.
Study reveals one of the possible uses of spheroids 400,000 ago
The study has applied a multidisciplinary approach that involves both a technological analysis of use, a study of the trace residues and experimental series of bone fracture.
Survey on the impact of the COVID-19 situation on museums in Europe
NEMO has gathered data on how COVID-19 has impacted museum budgets and operations, how museums cope in these times, how they re-organise their structures and offer new services to their audiences.
Antiquities Ministry announces new discovery in Saqqara
The most important of these discoveries were the gorgeously decorated tomb of Wahti and the cachette of the sacred birds and animals from which many animal mummies—some extremely rare—were brought to light.
China’s viticulture in transition
Wine culture going back thousands of years lays the foundation for emerging modern wine industry in the Middle Kingdom.
Study sheds light on alterations by carnivores to Paleolithic campsites
Paper demonstrates the considerable alteration and anatomical bias produced by wild carnivores once places inhabited by Paleolithic hominins have been abandoned.
Digital tour of the “Andy Warhol” exhibition
Tate Modern prepared a 7-minute video for a short digital tour of the exhibition.