A dazzling journey through the decorative arts: from the hand-crafted luxuries of the Renaissance to the first stirrings of mass commerce in the Enlightenment.
Western Australian Museum researcher Dr Zoe Richards has identified coral used in three sacred pyramid tombs on a prehistoric Micronesian island to date their construction to the 14th century.
A medieval cesspit in the Christian quarter of the old city of Jerusalem has revealed the presence of a number of ancient parasite eggs, providing a window into the nature and spread of infectious diseases in the Middle East during the 15th century.
Peter Pavúk (Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University in Prague) will introduce the topic "Beyond Argolis. Survival of MH traditions into LBA in Central Greece", in the framework of the Aegean Lectures.
Archaeologists have investigated the historical processes leading up to China's political unification through the juxtaposition of macro- and micro-scale analysis.
Team led by International Centre for Theoretical Physics researchers discovers archaeological site most likely to be 2nd century BC Trieste using modern technology, such as LiDAR and GPR.
Sevi Triantafyllou will address the topic “Managing with death in Prepalatial and Protopalatial Crete: a fresh look at the skeletal remains”, as part of the Minoan Seminar series.
After nearly two years of restoration work on 70 rooms at Pompeii’s largest dwelling and one of the most complete structures left standing at the site, the Villa dei Misteri will be fully reopened on 20 March.
An interdisciplinary team has combined visualisation techniques, engineering principles, and statistical analysis into a powerful new way of analysing the structure of long bones.
A new study attempts to trace the boundary of the beginning of the Anthropocene. In particular, Simon Lewis, of University College, London and the University of Leeds. and Mark Maslin of University College tried to locate the specific data that would allow