Indigenous groups living today in southern Alaska and the western coast of British Columbia are descendants of the first humans to make their home in northwest North America more than 10,000 years ago.
The gradual decline of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs presumably came before the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid and the global mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
The ARCHE team together with Indonesian colleagues, have shed new light on ‘Ice Age’ human culture and symbolism in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Research suggests that large demographic changes during the first part of the Bronze Age happened as a result of massive migrations of Yamnaya people from the Pontic-Caspian steppes into Neolithic Europe.
A new scientific study of medieval human bones, excavated from a deserted English village, suggests the corpses they came from were burnt and mutilated.
ICOM - ICTOP (International Council of Museums - International Committee for the Training of Personnel) is holding its annual conference from October 11-13 (extended programme October 10-15), 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia.
An Egyptian archaeological mission working in the area located to the south of King Snefru's bent pyramid in Dahshour necropolis has uncovered the remains of a 13th Dynasty pyramid.
Ancient DNA samples were compared with those of modern Cretans, and the results of these analyses sheds new light to many issues surrounding the ancient migration of people and culture to the island.
A mummified, ancient, Egyptian cat is among a host of artefacts from the University of Aberdeen museums' collections that have been captured using 3D imaging software so they can be shared around the world.
A paleontologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature is countering decades of studies that assert that some dinosaurs can be identified as male or female based on the shapes and sizes of their bones.
The Berenson Library (Villa I Tatti / The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) presents a new exhibition with a selection of vintage photographs from the collection of Byzantine art and architecture.
Researchers have identified a rare “coffin birth” in a 14th-century burial ground at the hostel of San Nicolao di Pietra Colice in the Northern Apennines.
Leonardo da Vinci's painting Adoration of the Magi has been returned to the Uffizi Gallery after a long and hard restoration of its original colouring that lasted 6 years.