Research reveals ancient Maya lessons on surviving drought
A new analysis by UC Riverside archaeologist Scott Fedick and plant physiologist Louis Santiago shows the Maya had nearly 500 edible plants available to them.
Earliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to 230,000 years ago
Dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals Homo sapiens remains are much older than previously thought.
Foetus inside Egyptian mummy preserved thanks to unusual process
A foetus inside a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy was preserved due to a process similar to that of a ‘pickled cucumber’.
The statue of a woman with a full length chiton came to light in Epidaurus
The statue was found intact, with the exception of the arms, which would have been additional, and the head, which had probably broken during its fall.
Headquarters of Ancient Egyptian mining mission found in Sinai
Archaeologists working in the Wadi Al-Nasab region of the Sinai have uncovered the headquarters of a mining operation that dates back to the Middle Kingdom.
Qumayrah Valley : ancient towers, copper trade and games
Archaeologists identified tower in a Bronze Age settlement, found evidence of copper smelting and a 4 thousand-year-old game board!
Medieval warhorses were surprisingly small in stature
Medieval warhorses are often depicted as massive and powerful beasts, but in reality many were no more than pony-sized by modern standards.
Ancient tombs reveal ‘funerary avenues’ in north-west Arabia
Pathways flanked by thousands of burial monuments suggest a high degree of social and economic connection between the region’s populations.
Disability and Infanticide in Ancient Greece
This article confronts the widespread assumption that disability, in any broad and undefined sense, constituted valid grounds for infanticide in ancient Greece.
New fragments from the Parthenon at the Acropolis Museum
It is with great joy that the Acropolis Museum received ten fragments of the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon, which were granted by the National Archaeological Museum.
Results of the 2021 Agios Sozomenos-Djirpoulos excavations
Excavations aimed at clarifying the plan of the architectural remains where in previous years, a complex of workshops was uncovered.
Participants in California’s Gold Rush dined on salted Atlantic cod
Atlantic cod were imported during the 1850s, likely as a (largely) deboned, dried and salted product from the East Coast of the United States.
DNA in archaeological sediments for long periods of time
Ancient human and animal DNA can remain stably localized in sediments, preserved in microscopic fragments of bone and feces.
Disturbing Viking ritual could have really happened, say researchers
The Blood Eagle ritual has been highlighted throughout history as an example of Viking brutality and ruthlessness...
Spectacular ancient treasure discovered at sea off the coast of Caesarea
Treasure from two ancient shipwrecks, including hundreds of silver coins, figurines, and a gold ring recovered off the coast of Caesarea.
Hundreds of dinosaur footprints found in Polish village
Palaeontologists have found hundreds of fossilised dinosaur footprints dating back 200 million years in a clay pit in Poland.
“KALLOS”: the exhibition will run till January 16
Due to an increased number of visitors, the museum will extend its opening hours from Monday December 20 and over the holiday season.
Record prices for Greek art works in 2021
The monumental work of Konstantinos Parthenis "The Apotheosis of Beauty" secured the the highest price for the Greek art market.
Slavic grave artefacts rediscovered during ‘storage-room archaeology’
Around 40,000 fragments of clay vessels, a dozen metal artefacts and hundreds of human and animal bones uncovered.
Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50,000-year-old social network across Africa
New archeological study shows ancient connection between populations 3,000 km apart, and provides first direct link between climate change and ancient human social behavior.
N. Ch. Stampolidis and I. D. Fappas (eds.), Kallos. The ultimate beauty
Review of the catalogue of the exhibition held in the Museum of Cycladic Art from September, 2021 to January, 2022.
Discovering sources of Roman silver coinage from the Iberian Peninsula
A new study determines which locations of the Iberian Peninsula may have been mined for silver to produce Roman coinage.
No longer just ‘famine food’ and the ‘fish of death’
Study aims to rewrite the reputation of limpets and ensure their significance to human civilisations is truly and accurately recognised.
Humans reached North Atlantic Islands centuries earlier than thought
New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic Faroe Islands indicates that an unknown band of humans settled there around 500 AD—some 350 years before the Vikings.