Found the world’s oldest rune stone
An ancient Norwegian rune stone is attracting international attention among runic scholars and archaeologists. The inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing.
Quantity and Quality. The World of Greek Terracottas
The exhibition Quantity and Quality at the Altes Museum focuses on the contexts in which clay figures were used, and provides new perspectives on this often overlooked medium.
Marriage in Minoan Crete
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, achieves completely new insights into Bronze Age marriage rules and family structures in Greece.
Royal tomb discovery reported at Luxor’s Western Valleys
The discovery has been reported at Luxor’s Western Valleys’ area SW of the Valley of the Kings, on the Nile’s west bank opposite Luxor.
Alexander Graham Bell’s experimental sound recordings to be preserved
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will embark this fall on a new round of sound recovery to restore some of the world’s earliest recordings.
Mainz University contributes to recent discovery of the temple of Poseidon
Natural Hazard Research and Geoarchaeology team of JGU is investigating coastal developments in Western Greece over the last 11,600 years.
Headless skeletons in a settlement trench: A 7000-year-old mass grave?
Archaeologists from the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1266 came across an unusual find during this year's excavations in Slovakia.
Bogs reveal millennia-old stories about violence and religion
An international team of archaeologists and earth scientists have analysed hundreds of human remains found in Europe’s wetlands.
House of the Vettii in Pompeii re-opened
The lavish house in Pompeii has opened its doors to the public after two decades of restoration.
Three people arrested for trying to steal Ramesses II statue
Three men sneaked into the southern quarry area in Upper Egypt governate of Aswan, where they planned to lift the 10-tons Ramesses II statue with a crane.
4,000-year-old ostrich eggs uncovered in the Negev dunes
They were discovered next to an ancient fire pit in an IAA excavation, initiated by the JNF and the Ramat Negev Regional Council.
Nouveau réalisme at Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation
The exhibition features more than 50 works and justifies the instinct of Basil and Elise Goulandris, who paid tribute to the movement.
At the Uffizi Galleries a masterpiece of Risorgimento painting
The painting portrays the character in a cell, in the Spielberg prison; now on view at the Uffizi, in spring it will begin an exhibition tour in various locations in Tuscany.
Many sources about Copernicus still await discovery
An interview with historian and philosopher of science, Professor Michał Kokowski.
Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
Mass production of bladelets shows cultural shift in Levantine Paleolithic
Stone tools found at the Al-Ansab 1 excavation site are witnesses to the technological change happened 40.000 years ago.
Average age at conception for men versus women over past 250,000 years
Evolutionary biologists at IU found that fathers are consistently older than mothers throughout human evolutionary history, but that age gap has shrunk.
Neutrons expose the insides of a medieval pendant
Research team has solved the mystery of a gold-plated pendant found in 2008 in a medieval refuse pit in the Old City section of Mainz.
Ship cannons retrieved from the Bulgarian Northern Black Sea
A winter sea rescue expedition brought new ship acquisitions to the National History Museum.
Nine crocodile heads found in ancient Egyptian tombs
Polish archaeologists working in the North Asasif necropolis (West Thebes) near the Temple of Hatshepsut discovered 9 crocodile heads deposited in two elite tombs.
US officials returns stolen antiquity to Palestine
Repatriation marks first time the United States has returned a cultural object to the Palestinian people.
Exceptional migration to Scandinavia during the Viking era
A new study based on 297 ancient Scandinavian genomes analysed together with the genomic data of 16,638 present day Scandinavians resolve the complex relations between geography, ancestry, and gene flow in Scandinavia.
New study suggests Mayas utilized market-based economics
More than 500 years ago Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers than many archeologists thought.
Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the Americas
Oldest so far projectile points found in the Americas help fill in the history of how early humans crafted and used stone weapons.