New 3-foot-tall relative of Tyrannosaurus rex
A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered and named by a Virginia Tech paleontologist and an international team of scientists.
Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants
A thousand years ago, Native Americans in South America used multiple psychotropic plants to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness.
New reading of the Mesha Stele inscription has major consequences for biblical history
Line of the inscription lends credence to the story of Balaam in the Book of Numbers, Tel Aviv University researchers say.
Explaining the Exceptional Economic Resilience of the Carthaginians during the Punic Wars
Unpublished information to explain the exceptional economic resilience of the Carthaginians during the Punic wars.
Chewing versus sex in the duck-billed dinosaurs
The duck-billed hadrosaurs walked the Earth over 90-million years ago and were one of the most successful groups of dinosaurs.
First hominins on the Tibetan Plateau were Denisovans
Researchers describe a hominin lower mandible that was found on the Tibetan Plateau in Baishiya Karst Cave in Xiahe, China.
First examples of Iberian prehistoric ‘imitation amber’ beads at gravesites
Prehistoric Iberians created “imitation amber” by repeatedly coating bead cores with tree resins.
Immigration, Emigration and Exile: Encounters in Late Antiquity (ca. 150-700 CE)
The XXVI Finnish Symposium on Late Antiquity “Immigration, Emigration and Exile: Encounters in Late Antiquity (ca. 150-700 CE)” will take place in the Lammi biological station, on 8.-9.11.2019.
The materiality of purple dye production and use in Cyprus and the Aegean
The Workshop on the materiality of purple dye production is jointly organized by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete (INSTAP-SCEC) and the Archaeological Research Unit (ARU), University of Cyprus.
Crusaders made love and war, genetic study finds
First genetic study of the Crusaders confirms that warriors mixed and had families with local people in the near East, and died together in battle.
D. Pandermalis ‟There was no ferman issued for the removal of the Parthenon marbles″
D. Pandermalis spoke about the recent position adopted by the two Turkish scientists researching the Ottoman archives.
Switch from hunting to herding recorded in ancient pee
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding is considered a crucial turning point in the history of humanity. Scholars think the intensive food production that came along with the Neolithic Revolution, starting around 10,000 B.C., allowed cities
Funded MA program at Texas Tech University
The masters program at Texas Tech University still has several funded positions available for students interested in earning a 2 year MA degree starting in the fall of 2019.
UNESCO experts ready to assist reconstruction of iconic Notre Dame, following devastating blaze
Two-thirds of the largely medieval roof of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris have “gone” after the devastating fire. The stonework remained intact.
Meet Gobihadros, a new species of Mongolian hadrosaur
This dinosaur sheds light on the evolution of hadrosaurs, dominant herbivores of the Late Cretaceous.
Vathi on Astypalaia: A palimpsest of the Aegean islands through time
A lecture by Andreas G. Vlachopoulos about the site of Vathy on
the island of Astypalaia.
10th Postgraduate Conference
The 10th Conference of Postgraduate students and PhD candidates of the Faculty of Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will be held in Athens on 1st–4th October 2019
At last, acknowledging royal women’s political power
Anthropologist Paula Sabloff analyzes the archeological and written records of eight premodern states separated by both time and space, detailing ways that queen rulers and main wives took political action.
Need for social skills helped shape modern human face
The modern human face is distinctively different to that of our near relatives and now researchers believe its evolution may have been partly driven by our need for good social skills.
Ancient DNA shows migrants introduced farming to Britain from Europe
Farming was brought to Britain by migrants from continental Europe, and not adopted by pre-existing hunter-gatherers, indicates a new ancient DNA study.
Nero’s first palace is again open to the public
The 800-square-metres Domus Transitoria was built to relieve the emperor from the intolerable heat of the Roman summer.
Undeciphered Scripts from the Aegean in the II Millennium BC
The Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, seeks applications for one doctoral scholarship, fully funded for three years.
Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age
Starting around 4,500 BCE, a new phenomenon of constructing megalithic monuments, particularly for funerary practices, emerged along the Atlantic façade.
Notre Dame Cathedral: Fire under control
The landmark’s spire and roof collapsed but its rectangular bell towers and structure of the building have been saved.