Ancient toothed turtles survived until 160m years ago
Today’s turtles don’t have teeth; they cut off their food using hard ridges on their jaws. But their ancestors were not so dentally challenged.
A Viking toolkit discovered in the Borgring
Discovered in the “Borgring”, the ring fortress near Køge in Denmark, a 1,000-year-old toolbox is the first direct evidence of life in the Viking castle.
Digital imagery reveals secrets of 800-year-old “royal” book
A lavishly illustrated medieval book which once belonged to King Henry VIII was not created for the royal elite but was actually a tool for teaching, new digitally enhanced photography has confirmed.
The Fate of Neanderthal Genes
A new study by geneticists at the University of California, Davis, shows why the traces of our closest relatives are slowly being removed by natural selection.
Long searched for causeway of Sarenput I came to light
The long searched for causeway of Sarenput I has been discovered by a joint mission from the University of Birmingham and the Egypt Exploration Society at Qubbet el-Hawa.
Santorini eruption: What caused the devastating Bronze Age tsunamis?
Νot the collapse of the caldera walls, but the considerable amounts of pyroclastic flows that spewed out of the volcanic cone, new study suggests.
A giant predatory lizard swam in Antarctic seas near the end of the dinosaur age
Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs, but close relatives of modern-day lizards, that thrived in the seas during the Cretaceous period of the dinosaur age.
Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought
Research pushes back the date for the oldest evidence of life on land to some 300 million years earlier than previously documented.
Exhibition: The State Hermitage Museum, Gateway to History
The exhibition has opened its gates in the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens.
Significant Bronze Age city discovered in Northern Iraq
Bassetki was only known to the general public in the past because of the “Bassetki statue,” which was discovered there by chance in 1975.
Patagonian fossil leaves reveal rapid recovery from dinosaur extinction event
Ancient feeding marks from hungry insects in South American leaf fossils are shedding new light on the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Grolier Codex ruled genuine
The Grolier contains astronomical Venus tables and day signs, but the later Dresden, Madrid and Paris codices are marked by more complex grammar, explanatory texts and denser imagery.
The rediscovery of Locri
The Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the CNR-IBAM are conducting a joint multidisciplinary research project for the study of the ancient Greek and Roman city of Locri.
Νew data about the first communities of the Old Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula
A researcher from the University of Granada (UGR) has shed new light on the lifestyle of the first communities in the Early Neolithic (7500-6800 years ago) in the Iberian Peninsula, from the study of stone bracelets.
Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies
On average, herbivorous mammals have a body cavity that is twice as big as carnivores of a similar body size.
Warratyi Rock Shelter is the oldest evidence of Aboriginal occupation in Australia
La Trobe University led research has uncovered extraordinary evidence of the earliest human habitation of inland arid Australia.
How the chicken crossed the Red Sea
The discarded bone of a chicken leg provides some of the oldest known physical evidence for the introduction of domesticated chickens to the continent of Africa.
When corals met algae
The mutually beneficial relationship between algae and modern corals began more than 210 million years ago, according to a new study by an international team of scientists including researchers from Princeton University.
Today Cambridge Library opens its “ultimate cabinet of curiosities”
The Library celebrates its 600th anniversary year with an exhibition of curious items.
Middle Stone Age ochre processing tools reveal cultural and behavioural complexity
Range of ochre processing techniques produced powder of varying color and coarseness.
Arnd Hennemeyer: The Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Lecture of the "THE CIRCLE, Dialogues for Greek and Roman Architecture” by Dr.-Ing. Arnd Hennemeyer.
New underwater finds show Malta was part of the Phoenician trade
The Maltese islands were possibly part of the Phoenician trade, show new findings of maritime archaeologists at the shipwreck off the coast of Gozo.
Rome’s Jewish catacombs receive Italian government funding
The Italian government's Consiglio Nazionale dei Beni Culturali has assigned nearly 1.5 million euro to finance work in the Jewish catacombs of Rome.
Norcia’s basilica destroyed by earthquake
The 6.6 earthquake that struck central Italy on October 30, destroyed a number of churches and historic buildings. Among them was Norcia’s Basilica of San Benedetto.