Leeds experts discover biggest ever solar storm over 14,300 years ago
It would potentially wipe out telecommunications and satellite systems, cause massive electricity grid blackouts, and cost the global economy billions of pounds.
Esna Temple’s True Colors Revealed During Restoration Project
The process of cleaning and conserving the temple's ceiling entered its seventh and final stage.
An extraordinary archaeological discovery in Spain
Durham University Archaeology students have been part of an extraordinary archaeological discovery in Spain.
University of Cambridge: Medieval Murder Maps
A project mapping medieval England’s known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London’s 14th century slayings.
Paved surface at Dartmoor stone row uncovered by archaeologists
Monuments like this are thought to have had considerable ritual importance for the people who created and used them thousands of years ago.
Plant, Pigment and Bone Processing in Neolithic Northern Saudi Arabia
Use-wear analysis of grinding tools from the site of Jebel Oraf shows that the artifacts were used during the Neolithic.
300-metre-long ancient aqueduct at Giv‘at Hamatos
A long section of the Upper Aqueduct to Jerusalem was uncovered in archaeological excavations at Giv'at Hamatos.
New findings have come to light in Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe
New findings have come to light in Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe, two sights deemed as “zero point of history”.
Legend of a temple on the Cerro de San Miguel confirmed
The INAH confirms legends about the existence of a pre-Hispanic temple or teocalli on the Cerro de San Miguel.
Excavation in Egyptian 1st Dynasty Queen’s Tomb Yields Sealed Wine Jars
The newly found jars are large in size and in good condition of preservation, while the remains of wine found inside them are about 5,000 years old.
The origins of sculpture at the Benaki Museum
This exhibition includes stone tools and ‘figure stones’ depicting birds, faces, and bodies originating from sites in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East and presented for the first time in Greece.
Feasting (and dancing and singing?) with death
The Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus will host Dr Metaxia Tsipopoulou in its 60th ZOOM Public Lecture Series.
Rediscovering the medieval manor of Court De Wyck
Various sources suggest some form of the manor survived until 1815, when it was eventually torn down following a fire.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Collection Moves To A New Website
The new website also gives access to the images of the Oxyrhynchus papyri.
A Roman-period cranial tumor case is detected
The CENIEH publishes a study of a case of meningioma in a Roman-period cranium.
Eight more chambers discovered in an Egyptian pyramid
During the work at the pyramid’s antechamber, the team located traces of a low passage that had been recorded by British explorer John Perring in 1836.
New Indo-European language discovered
The new language was discovered in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Boğazköy-Hattusha in north-central Turkey.
Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are actually relicts of millennial-scale extinction
In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots.
Adhesive technology sheds new light on prehistoric cognition
Prehistoric production of birch bark tar reveals required cognition kind for materials produced by Neanderthal and early modern humans.
Project seeks to preserve an endangered language
The team is working to preserve Syriac, a 2,000-year-old language that once flourished in the Middle East and Central Asia.
When and how did the flow of Homo sapiens in Eurasia happen?
A new study appearing in Science Advances compares Pleistocene vegetation communities around Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, to the oldest archeological traces of Homo sapiens in the region.
Temple “of Aphrodite” revealed in Thonis Heraklion
The mission has excavated the remains of buildings supported by wooden beams dating back to the 5th century BC, as well as bronze and ceramic finds imported from Greece.
Witchcraft suspicion: ‘occupational hazard’ for women
Women’s working conditions increased the odds of them being suspected as witches, according to a new analysis of an English astrologer’s case files from the early 17th century.
Viking trade connections stretched over hundreds of kilometres
Analysis of Vikings hair combs reveals connections between northern Scandinavia and the edges of continental Europe.