Modern apes smarter than pre-humans
New research from the University of Adelaide suggests living great apes are smarter than our pre-human ancestor Australopithecus, a group that included the famous "Lucy."
Scientists explore Egyptian mummy bones with x-rays and infrared light
Researchers from Cairo University work with teams at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source to study soil and bone samples dating back 4,000 years.
Terracina: A Cosmopolitan City Near Rome
In a new excavation project undertaken by German and Italian researchers, LMU archaeologists Paul Scheding and Francesca Diosono have uncovered evidence suggesting that Terracina was the site of the first Hellenistic temple in the region.
‘Ghost’ footprints from Pleistocene era revealed by radar tech
The fossilized footprints reveal a wealth of information about how humans and animals moved and interacted with each other 12,000 years ago.
Dr Elena Koundouri talks about the excavations at Gla
The building facilities at the Mycenaean acropolis of Gla are definitely related with the draining works of the lake, according to the head of the excavations, Dr Elena Koundouri.
New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago
A new study co-led by researchers in the U.S. and China has pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period.
Early dispersal for quadrupedal cetaceans
Scientists have a relatively precise idea about where whales and their closest terrestrial relatives evolved more than 50 million years ago (early Eocene), thanks to the discovery of ancient cetacean fossils in India and Pakistan.
Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists: an overview
ICE XII brought to the spotlight a number of discoveries and opened new paths in the archaeology of ancient Egypt.
New data on the appearance of bipedalism on earth
Fossils were discovered in Germany of the Danuvius ape who was perhaps the first in the world to stand on its two legs 11.6 million years ago.
Stanford researchers lay out first genetic history of Rome
Rome still holds some secrets, for instance, relatively little is known about the ancestral origins of the city's denizens. Now, an international team led is filling in the gaps.
Motifs in rock art in Sweden show seafaring in the Stone Age
South-west Sweden’s best preserved rock painting has now been dated – it is from the late Stone Age.
Andy Warhol: Revelation
First exhibition to comprehensively examine the Pop artist’s complex Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production.
The Mycenaean citadel of Agios Andreas in Sifnos
Recent excavations have revealed most of the Acropolis, as well as its complex Mycenaean defense system, one unique to the Aegean.
Important new finds from the acropolis of Gla
Unlike other large Mycenaean acropoleis which have been repeatedly modified, Glas presents a noticeably clear and rare uniform architectural design.
Drones reveal secrets of ancient Florida village
Using drone technology, a team of UF researchers has uncovered how an ancient Florida village played a pivotal role in pre-Columbian geopolitics.
How Human Population came from our ability to cooperate
Humans may owe their place as Earth's dominating species to their ability to share and cooperate with each other.
The genetic imprint of Palaeolithic has been detected in North African populations
They have identified a small genetic imprint of the inhabitants of the region in Palaeolithic times, thus ruling out the theory that recent migrations from other regions completely erased the genetic traces of ancient North Africans.
Five shipwrecks located off Kasos
Important archaeological data is among the finds of the first underwater research expedition off the island of Kasos.
Humans migrated from Europe to the Levant 40,000 years ago
Discovery of teeth in Manot Cave sheds light on a population known for its cultural contributions, Tel Aviv University researchers say.
Minoan settlement and great quantities of Porfyra located on Chrysi islet
The settlement had a flourishing economy not apparent from the architectural remains but from the fine quality artefacts found in the houses.
The “new” clothes of the Hero
Aegean Lecture about the new results from the on-going study of the textiles from Lefkandi.
The rise of oxygen
The rise of atmospheric oxygen is one of Earth history's greatest stories but this story is typically told through secondhand evidence.
Ancient bone protein reveals which turtles were on the menu in Florida, Caribbean
Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and the Caribbean feasted on sea turtles, leaving behind bones that tell tales of ancient diets and the ocean's past.
The last Neanderthal necklace
The interest in these findings lies in the fact that it is the most modern piece of the kind so far regarding the Neanderthal period and the first one found in the Iberian Peninsula.