The mystery of Easter Island revealed?
The nearly 1,000 Moai were carved because the community believed the statues capable of producing agricultural fertility and thereby critical food supplies.
Human teeth used as jewellery in Turkey 8,500 years ago
The rarity of the find suggests that the human teeth were imbued with profound symbolic meaning for the people who wore them.
Lina Mendoni at the COP25 conference in Madrid
She referred to interdisciplinary research that contributes to better knowledge and improvement in addressing and managing the impacts of climate change.
Indonesian cave art overturns thinking on the roots of human spirituality
Archaeologists discovered a cave painting which portrays a group of part-human, part-animal figures hunting large mammals with spears or ropes.
Researchers analyze artifacts to better understand ancient diet
New research on ancient dietary practices, the evolution of agricultural societies and how plants have become an important element of the modern diet.
Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Tasoula Hadjitofi: “The Icon Hunter”
The book presentation of Tasoula Hadjitofi about her struggle against the illegal trafficking of cultural treasures from Cyprus’ Occupied Territories.
Isotope analysis points to prisoners of war
Several years ago, Maya archaeologists from the University of Bonn found the bones of about 20 people at the bottom of a water reservoir in the former Maya city of Uxul.
A new early whale and the evolution of modern whale locomotion
New whale represents an intermediate stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming.
Virtual journey to the Romans
In an extensive project, archaeologists at Goethe University processed and digitally recorded Roman artefacts from Stockstadt am Main (Bavaria).
Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’ Art: The Archaic Turn
The exhibition starts with the observation that Zervos is one of the great “unknown” figures of art history.
Tattoos more popular among Ancient Egyptians than once thought
With the help or infrared photography, an American archaeologist revealed tattoos on a large group of ancient Egyptian mummies.
Cretaceous mammal separated hearing and chewing modules
Researchers reported a new symmetrodont, Origolestes lii, a stem therian mammal from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, in China's Liaoning Province.
New data on the open air sanctuary of Zeus in Arcadia
The fact that it never acquired a monumental architectural form indicates its supreme sanctity, points out Dr Karapanagiotou.
When penguins ruled after dinosaurs died
Fossil records show giant human-sized penguins flew through Southern Hemisphere waters—along side smaller forms, similar in size to some species that live in Antarctica today.
Dull teeth, long skulls, specialized bites
An investigation of the skulls of 160 non-avian dinosaurs revealed the evolution of common traits in the skulls and teeth of plant-eating members of otherwise very different families of these extinct reptiles.
Cuneiform Reveals Shared Birthplace
Assyriologists in Leiden have been conducting research into ancient clay tablets from the Middle East for 100 years already. What exactly do these clay tablets tell us? And why is Leiden such a good place to study them?
The rural landscape in Greek antiquity
This is the topic of the scientific conference organized by the Greek section of ICOMOS on Thursday, December 19.
Palaeolithic Venus unearthed in Amiens
A unique “Venus” figurine has been discovered by archaeologists excavating at the prehistoric site of Renancourt in Amiens, northern France. The find is dated back to the Early Upper Palaeolithic. The Gravettian figurine was found in a layer with organic
Iron Age artefacts found in Oman’s Musandam
A new and important archaeological discovery dating back to the Iron Age has been found by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture at an archaeological site in the Wilayat of Dibba, in Oman’s Musandam Governorate.
‘Envelopes’ made of clay in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Marad
Hundreds of texts in cuneiform script dating back to the 2nd millennium BC have been brought to light.
A Greek necropolis comes to light in Gela, Sicily
Work on installing a network of fiber optic cables for the people of the Sicilian city that had been an ancient Greek colony, brought to light a necropolis created by the first generation of its inhabitants.
First experimental genetic evidence of the human self-domestication hypothesis
Earlier research by the team of Cedric Boeckx had found genetic similarities between humans and domesticated animals in genes. The aim of the present study was to take a step further.