A new study from the University of Cambridge has identified one of the oldest fossil brains ever discovered and used it to help determine how heads first evolved in early animals.
The strange Thracian bronze artifact found in the area of the southern town of Zlatograd in the Rhodope Mountains was characterized by Bulgarian archaeologists as “the oldest children’s toy in Europe”.
An international team, including archaeologists from the University of Southampton, has found evidence suggesting leprosy may have spread to Britain from Scandinavia.
This richly illustrated volume seeks to define the complex contours of the reception of Greek drama in the Americas, and to articulate how these different engagements have been distinct both from each other, and from those of Europe and Asia.
According to an announcement made by the Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh al-Damaty at the opening of the first International Tutankhamun Conference organized by the Grand Egyptian Museum, the museum will be partially opened by May 2018.
The Archaeornithura meemannae lived roughly 130.7 million years ago in northeastern China, about 6 million years before the previously thought origin of modern birds, according to a paper published in Nature Communications.
Exhibition presenting to the public, for the first time, a large part of the results of half a century of archaeological investigations of the Polish archaeological mission in the city of Paphos.
Seminar investigating relationship between themes, motifs and structures of the texts and/or of the myths involved, starting with the early examples of epic poetry and of wisdom and didactic literature.
University of Utah anthropologist Karen Kramer explores the moment when ancient societies adopted the practice of 'taking a village to raise a child' in research published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
More than 800 mummies, ranging from cats and birds to crocodiles, have so far been analysed using X-rays and CT scans during a large scanning project at Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester.
This international conference brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology, and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions.
New study shows that the early Vikings from Norway had access to large quantities of reindeer antlers and sold them to craftworkers in Southern Scandinavia.