Cannabis plants found in ancient grave in China
Cannabis found in an ancient burial in China offers scientists an insight into the ritual and medicinal use of the plant in antiquity according to a recent report.
Apes understand that some things are all in your head
Bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans understand that others can be convinced of something that is not true.
Ocean Explorers. From Sindbad to Marco Polo
An exhibition organised in collaboration with the MuCEM, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations in Marseilles.
Giant print could offer insight into dinosaur behaviour
One of the largest dinosaur footprints found in the Gobi desert might shed light on titanosaurus behaviour.
Ancient inscription shows Persian resident in Japanese city
An inscription now deciphered shows that ancient Japan was more cosmopolitan than previously thought.
‘Blind dates’ in the amber world
Paleontologists at the University of Bonn have discovered a tiny biting midge no larger than one millimeter in 54 million-year-old amber.
Student uncovers fossils from oldest sea turtle ancestor
Several 80-million-year-old fossils found in Alabama are from a species of sea turtle that is the oldest known member of the lineage that gave rise to all modern species of sea turtle, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Marble tablet with rental agreement found in Turkey
Excavations at the ancient Greek city of Teos in Izmir's Seferihisar district, on the west coast of Turkey, have yielded an inscribed marble tablet with a rental agreement.
More than 2,000 looted objects have been recovered in Greece
According to the Greek police, the arrests are connected to a criminal organisation that has been active in archaeological sites' looting and smuggling for the past 10 years.
Researchers reconstruct house in ancient Pompeii using 3D technology
By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption.
Research to answer a ‘crushing’ evolutionary question
Studying the physical features of long-extinct creatures continues to yield surprising new knowledge of how evolution fosters traits desirable for survival in diverse environments.
Astonishing late bronze age pressed flower found
Archaeologists in Lancashire unearthed a hoard inside the hollow end of an axe handle, including a pristine 3,000-year-old pressed flower.
Archaeologists in Yorkshire discover oldest Iron Age mound
A mound in Yorkshire is an Iron Age monument rather than a Norman castle motte as it was previously thought, archaeologists say.
Rock art sites in Western Australia’s remote regions recorded
Rock art sites in Western Australia are documented for the first time as part of a survey, which started in July, documenting more than 30,000 images from 250 rock art sites in Kimberley region.
Researchers describe new large prehistoric shark
Megalolamna paradoxodon is the name of a new extinct shark described by an international research team.
Lord of the rings
A University of Cincinnati team's rare discovery of four gold rings in the tomb of a wealthy Bronze Age warrior undisturbed for 3,500 years prompts a new consideration of Greek history.
Skeleton bears signs of a boomerang used as a lethal weapon
A skeleton found in Australia two years ago seems to have died from a boomerang blow and not by a sword, as was initially thought.
Ancient reptile fossils claw for more attention
Newly recovered fossils confirm that Drepanosaurus, a prehistoric cross between a chameleon and an anteater, was a small reptile with a fearsome finger.
Ear ossicles of modern humans and Neanderthals
Researchers relate the morphological differences in the ossicles to different evolutionary trajectories in brain size increase.
A fossilised bee nest indicates savannah-like hominine habitat
A fossilised bee nest discovered in South Africa offers new evidence regarding the environment of the Australopithecus Africanus.
Numerous Etruscan tombs found in Italy
Tombs discovered at the Etruscan necropolis of Vulci have revealed a variety of artefacts on Thursday.
Ritual pit complex revealed at the site of Prastio-Mesorotsos
In the ninth season of activity at the site of Prastio-Mesorotsos in the Pafos district, the team excavated in four areas, exposing prehistoric remains from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early and Middle Bronze Ages.
8,000-year-old ‘goddess figurine’ in central Turkey
A team of archaeologists led by Ian Hodder, professor of anthropology and of classics at Stanford, has unearthed an about 8,000-year-old figurine at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic site in central Turkey.
Headless burial in Siberia puzzles archaeologists
A unique discovery at the Altai Mountains, a tomb with decapitated skeletons but including the skulls, is puzzling archaeologists.