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.
Eleni Cubitt has died
Eleni Cubitt was a founding member and longstanding secretary general of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon sculptures.
More Mummy secrets revealed
Conservation of the Perth Mummy, Ta-Kr-Hb, is now well underway as the centre-piece of the current installation in Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Conservation in Action: Saving the Perth Mummy.
Museums thank doctors and nurses
The campaign- under the hashtag MuseumsThankHeroes– was organized by Mara Kurlandsky and Adrienne Poon of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington.
With the unfettered wings of Nike: exhibition of a unique collection
The exhibition comprising the unique collection of the collector-researcher Eleftherios Eleftheriou, records the modern history of the emblematic statue of the Victory of Samothrace.
Watch “Seleucus I the Nicator”
The Ephorate of Antiquities of Kilkis presents the short animated documentary “Seleucus I the Nicator. From Europos to the Hellenistic world”.
ASCSA shares videocasts of presentations in Cotsen Hall
The lectures were presented by the School during the past academic year (October–April) and earlier.
An additional piece added to the evolution of turtles
The results of a recent study indicate a close link between skull evolution and the highly flexible neck of these armored reptiles.
Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic
The discovery helps date the transatlantic migration to about 34 million years ago, around the time a major drop in sea level would have made the ocean voyage shorter.
Genetic network analysis provides ‘snapshot’ of pandemic origins
Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early "evolutionary paths" of COVID-19 in humans.
Ancient string discovery sheds light on Neanderthal life
The discovery of the oldest known direct evidence of fibre technology using natural fibres to create yarn is reported in Scientific Reports this week.