Did dinosaurs have lips?
Can a crocodile’s smile reveal whether dinosaurs had lips? What if lips and gums hid most of dinosaur's teeth?
A national plan to excavate the Judean Desert caves
The Israel Antiquities Authority is promoting a national plan for comprehensive archaeological excavations in the Judean Desert caves, and rescuing the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Works from the Louvre are moved due to flood
Works of art kept at underground reserves of the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay are moved to higher levels due to floods.
Underwater ‘lost city’ found to be geological formation
When underwater divers discovered what looked like paved floors, courtyards and colonnades, they thought they had found the ruins of a long-forgotten civilization that perished when tidal waves hit the shores of the Greek holiday island Zakynthos...
Dogs were domesticated not once, but twice…
New research shows that man's best friend may have emerged independently from two separate (possibly now extinct) wolf populations that lived on opposite sides of the Eurasian continent.
How southeastern Mayan people overcame the catastrophic eruption of Ilpango?
Researchers discovered a Great Platform built with different kinds of stone at the archeological site of San Andrés, El Salvador, and challenged the prevailing theory regarding the sociocultural development of Southeastern Maya frontier.
King Tut’s dagger was made of meteorite iron
A new study shows that a dagger from King Tutankhamun's tomb was made from meteorite material.
Archaeological research into Britain’s oldest hand-written documents released
Archaeologists from MOLA have published research into Britain’s largest, earliest and most significant collection of Roman waxed writing tablets.
Ancient Wari Empire likely did not cause large shifts in population genetic diversity
Wari imperialism probably exerted through cultural diffusion, not population replacement.
French cave sheds new light on the Neanderthals
Deep inside Bruniquel Cave, in the Tarn et Garonne region of southwestern France, a set of man-made structures 336 meters from the entrance was recently dated as being approximately 176,500 years old.
Iron Age skeletal remains gifted to Isle of Wight Museum
The prehistoric remains of a woman discovered about a year ago on the Isle of Wight have been gifted to the Isle of Wight Museum.
What were Aegean texts for?
The lecture by John Bennett will take place at the British School at Athens, as part of the Annual Meeting of Aegeus.
The high-tech 3D mapping of Homo naledi’s Dinaledi chamber
In 2013, after the discovery of the hominin assemblage, Berger put a call out for "skinny" explorers to join him on the expedition to excavate what became known as the Dinaledi Chamber...
New Cretaceous fossils shed light on the early evolution of ants
Recent studies suggest that the early branching lineages of extant ants formed small colonies of either subterranean or epigeic, solitary specialist predators.
An experiment might explain the transport of Stonehenge blocks
An experiment by University College London tried to provide an answer to the question of how Stonehenge was built.
Significant discovery of cave paintings in northern Spain
Archaeologists in Spain have discovered a series of Palaeolithic era cave paintings in northern Spain, among the best found so far in the country.
‘Greeks’ exhibition to οpen June 1 at National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.
The Greeks makes its final of two US stops, and its only East Coast appearance, at the National Geographic Museum, where it opens to the public on June 1.
Pyramid of Unas reopens to public
After two decades of conservation and renovation works, the Pyramid of Unas was opened again to the public last Friday.
Remains of rice and mung beans help solve a Madagascan mystery
The first archaeological evidence that settlers from South Asia are likely to have colonised the island over a thousand years ago.
Dodona: The oracle of sounds
The exhibition aims at providing wider knowledge about the oldest Greek oracle, tracing the way it functioned, its role and importance in the ancient world, and at the same time showcasing the human need to predict the future.
Remains of bizarre group of extinct snail-eating Australian marsupials discovered
Fossil remains of a previously unknown family of carnivorous Australian marsupials that lived 15 million years ago have been discovered at the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Site .
Florence’s Uffizi Gallery to digitize in 3-D its entire Greek and Roman sculpture collection
High-resolution 3-D digital models of the Uffizi Greek and Roman sculptures will be created and made freely available online by Indiana University’s bicentennial in 2020.
Megalithic burial monument unearthed in India
A megalithic burial monument discovered in Malabar, India, has yielded additional evidence of proto-historic habitation of the area.
Neanderthals were stocky from birth
Analysis of two well-preserved skeletons of Neandertal neonates shows that Neandertals’ wide bodies and robust bones were formed by birth.