Chania: The Venetian Castle becomes a cultural centre
It is a site inextricably linked with local history from the years of Venetian rule in Crete up to and including the Second World War.
Early North Americans more diverse than previously suspected?
Four late Pleistocene-early Holocene skulls from Tulum in Mexico show surprising diversity.
Shocking truth behind Takabuti’s death revealed
Takabuti, the famous ancient Egyptian mummy on display at the Ulster Museum, suffered a violent death from a knife attack, research revealed.
The ‘firewalkers’ of Karoo
In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that includes mammals and their closest fossil relatives, survived in a “land of fire” at the start of an Early Jurassic mass extinction.
Researchers develop method to assess geographic origins of ancient humans
Study focused on ancient skull and mandible remains at Crenshaw, a Caddo Indian site in southwest Arkansas.
Our taste for Bahamas’ ‘most peaceable rodent’ shaped its diversity
The large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food preferences can drive biodiversity.
New study debunks myth of Cahokia’s Native American lost civilization
A University of California, Berkeley, archaeologist has dug up ancient human feces, among other demographic clues, to challenge the narrative around the legendary demise of Cahokia.
Louvre: L’Onde du Midi is a pleasant surprise to visitors
A mobile sculpture by the Venezuelan artist Elias Crespin greets visitors in the Sully wing of the Louvre.
Brain of Vesuvius Eruption victim turned into glass
The brain of 25-year-old man who died in Herculaneum near Pompeii during the Vesuvius Eruption in 79 AD turned into glass.
The Captives of Phaleron abandoned to their fate said Lina Mendoni
The “Captives” mass grave was discovered in March 2016 while excavating the Esplanade in Phaleron.
Unravelling arthropod genomic diversity over 500 million years of evolution
Comparative analyses across 76 species spanning 500 million years of evolution reveal dynamic genomic changes that point to key factors behind their success and open up many new areas of research.
New species of Allosaurus discovered in Utah
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
The composition of a Roman-era makeup case
The case was uncovered in a deposit of cremated remains alongside ceramic cups, bone spindles, nails, glassware and the remains of a detachable bone box.
Egyptian mummy gets its voice back
An Egyptian mummy got its voice back, after researchers produced and used a 3D version of its vocal tract.
3,000-year-old teeth solve Pacific banana mystery
Humans began transporting and growing banana in Vanuatu 3000 years ago, a University of Otago scientist has discovered.
Two writers penned landmark inscriptions in 8th-c. BC Samaria
Discovery illuminates bureaucratic apparatus of ancient kingdom of Israel, say Tel Aviv University researchers.
A specialized sheep-hunting camp in prehistoric Lebanon
Anthropologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have confirmed the existence more than 10,000 years ago of a hunting camp in what is now northeastern Lebanon.
First ancient DNA from Africa illuminates deep human past
An international team led by Harvard Medical School scientists has produced the first genome-wide ancient human DNA sequences from west and central Africa.
2019 excavations of the Pafos Agora Project completed
Excavations focused on three trial trenchest. It was possible to reveal either the street surfaces themselvesor the infrastructure associated with them.
Late Neolithic Italy was home to complex networks of metal exchange
Research revealed that, while some of the copper was sourced from the rich ore deposits of Tuscany, as was expected, some is from further afield.
Neutron source enables a look inside dino eggs
Did Oviraptoridchicks hatch at the same time? Researchers at the University of Bonn and the TU Munich provide presumptive evidence.
Genetic changes among indigenous Mexican populations
The genomic study, the largest of its kind for indigenous populations from the Americas, appeared recently in the advanced online edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution.
The boom and bust economy of the Greenland Norse walrus ivory trade
New research show that the settlers hunted walrus and traded tusks and ivory across Europe during the Middle Ages, but the hunt became so intense that it may have led to the collapse of Norse Greenland.
A stolen Klimt painting was accidentally discovered after 20 years
“Portrait of a lady” measuring 55×65 cm was painted in 1916-1917 by Gustav Klimt.