2000-year-old fig reveals Ireland’s ancient international food trade
The discovery of a 2000-year-old fig in North Dublin highlights Ireland’s long history of international food trade and taste for exotic foods.
Early North Americans made needles from fur-bearers
Paleolithic humans made needles from the bones of foxes, hares, bobcats, mountain lions, lynx and possibly the now-extinct American cheetah.
Utterly Indispensable: The Donkey in the Ancient World
This showcase exhibition at the Neues Museum of Berlin is dedicated to one of the first animals to be domesticated by humans: the donkey.
Pompeii brought in a daily limit of admissions
'Experience has shown that only those who focus on quality can achieve sustainable growth', Gabriel Zuchtriegel said.
Fossil dung reveals clues to dinosaur success story
Researchers at Uppsala University have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilised faeces of dinosaurs.
Kuwaiti-Polish team discovers unique Ubaid figurine
This year's finds by Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission at Bahra 1, a prehistoric site in the Al-Subiyah desert of Northern Kuwait.
Indigenous networks spread peaches across North America
Indigenous political and social networks and land use practices played key roles in the peach’s adoption and dispersal.
Denmark’s Glyptotek returns Roman bronze portrait to Türkiye
Denmark's Glyptotek has decided in favour of Türkiye’s request to return the ancient bronze portrait of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus.
2024 excavation at Palaepaphos, Kouklia-Marchello site
A remarkable find from this year’s excavation season was a small, fragmentary inscription in the Cypriot syllabary, found in secondary use.
First complex structure for tar extraction was made by Neanderthals
The discovery shows the extraction method Neanderthals developed and demonstrates the high level of their organization and cognition.
Geronisos Island and Agios Georgios tis Pegeias excavations
The NYU team excavated two trenches at Maniki Harbor unearthing vast deposits late Roman amphorae dumped at the water’s edge.
The Chilling Sound of the Aztec Death Whistle
A study conducted at the University of Zurich shows that these whistles have a disturbing effect on the human brain.
Shut your Eyes and See
The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens unravels the different aspects of the work of international artist Nakis Panayotidis.
Professor Lord Colin Renfrew (25th July 1937-24th Nov 2024)
Professor Cyprian Broodbank remembers Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, who passed away at the weekend aged 87.
Tenth-century Viking sword fragment discovered in Frisian soil
The Fries Museum and the Fryske Akademy present a fragment of a 10th c. Viking sword that was discovered near the Frisian town of Witmarsum.
Focaccia: a culinary tradition dating back 9,000 years ago
During the Late Neolithic, agricultural communities in the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East, developed a complex culinary tradition.
Prehistoric hunter-gatherers heard the elks painted on rocks talking
The same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also effective sound reflectors.
Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project season completed
Excavations at the site have revealed the presence of an early-Hellenistic fortified site located on a steep plateau overlooking Larnaka Bay.
Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed
Archaeological findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries.
Visual Experience in a Pompeian Domestic Space
The article by authors Danilo Marco Campanaro and Giacomo Landeschi provides a holistic account of Roman architecture.
Austrian researchers discover early Christian basilica in Aquileia
The church building reveals the connections between the Roman metropolis of Aquileia and the architecture of the Eastern Roman Empire.
The roots of avian intelligence
A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved.
“Planet Africa” opening at the National Library of Morocco
This exhibition offers insights into two million years of human history, enriched by more than two centuries of research tradition.
Study extends route of one of UK’s longest Roman aqueducts
The Dorchester aqueduct –one of the longest and most studied Roman watercourses in the country– was 2 km longer than previously thought.