Insights into human paternal and maternal demographic histories
Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and his team compared maternal and paternal histories and came to interesting conclusions.
Temple of Mithras
This September marks sixty years since the discovery of the Roman Temple of Mithras. The MOLA and Bloomberg undertake an Oral History Project to celebrate this historic event.
Digital Archaeology changes exploration of the past
An archaeologist in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is exploring the past using the tools of the 21st century.
Making sense of nonsense inscriptions associated with Amazons and Scythians
By deciphering “nonsense” inscriptions on Greek vases dating from 550 BC to 450 BC, the authors of a new study revealed the hidden names of Amazons.
A Future for our Past
The aim of the project is the creation of a new Digital Library which develops and evolves the impressive six volume corpus ‘Ancient Cypriot Literature’.
“Campfire tales were the original social media”
A University of Utah study of nighttime gatherings around fires by the Kalahari Bushmen suggests that human cultural development was advanced when human ancestors started telling stories around the fire at night.
They weren’t wimps
Recent finds at Willendorf in Austria reveal that modern humans were living in cool steppe-like conditions some 43,500 years ago – and that their presence overlapped with that of Neanderthals for far longer than we thought.
Answer to restoring lost island biodiversity found in fossils
Many native species have vanished from tropical islands because of human impact, but University of Florida scientists have discovered how fossils can be used to restore lost biodiversity.
The Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities at the Britannic wreck
The ocean liner HMHS Britannic, sister ship of RMS Titanic, sank in 1916 due to a German underwater mine off the Greek island of Kea.
Eighty ancient Greek coins to be returned from Italy
Eighty ancient Greek coins to be returned from Italy on the margins of Culture ministers' informal meeting.
New hadrosaur noses into spotlight
The new dinosaur, named Rhinorex condrupus by paleontologists from North Carolina State University and Brigham Young University, lived in what is now Utah approximately 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.
The Caryatids do not seize to amaze us
The Amphipolis Caryatids were fully uncovered revealing a height of 2.27 meters...
Stonehenge elite’s finest treasures were made by children
A new research revealed that only children could have been able to embellish the finely decorated weapons and jewelry discovered at the Bush Barrow burial mound near Stonehenge.
A love story 700 years in the making
Archaeologists uncover skeletons holding hands and a plethora of relics at the 'lost' Chapel of St Morrell, UK.
5 of 6 Syrian World Heritage sites “exhibit significant damage”
5 of 6 Syrian World Heritage sites "exhibit significant damage" according to new high-resolution satellite image analysis by AAAS.
Byzantine monastery in Beit Shemesh?
In recent weeks the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a large impressive compound dating to the Byzantine period in Ramat Beit Shemesh which includes an oil press, a wine press and mosaics.
Elaborate hairstyles puzzle archaeologists of Amarna Project
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a woman with a well-preserved elaborate hairstyle of more than 70 hair extensions during the excavations at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt.
New branch added to European family tree
Research in the last 10 years has revealed that almost all present-day Europeans descend from the mixing of early farmers and hunter gatherers. But it turns out that’s not the full story.
The Cirencester cockerel’s story
Cotswold Archaeology announced that the Cirencester cockerel will go on display at the Corinium Museum this month.
NOAA team reveals forgotten ghost ships off Golden Gate
A team of NOAA researchers confirmed the discovery just outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate strait of the 1910 shipwreck SS Selja and an unidentified early steam tugboat wreck tagged the “mystery wreck.”
Ottoman cannon recovered off Paralimni, Cyprus
On Sunday an Ottoman period cannon was recovered from an ancient shipwreck about three kilometres from the “Nisia” area in Protaras of the Paralimni Municipality.
Roman fort discovered in southern Germany
A first-century Roman fort was discovered in Gernsheim (southern Germany) by archaeologists from the Goethe University of Frankfurt in the course of an educational dig.
A spring forward for hominin evolution in East Africa
Freshwater springs fed with groundwater may have been key to hominin evolution, a new study reveals.
Zakynthos shipwreck to be revisited
Archaeologists plan to revisit the 16th century shipwreck that had been located in the 1980s near the port of Zakynthos