Feb. 18, 2016 Newly-excavated village in the Jordan Valley sheds light on the historical shift from foraging to agriculture, say ...
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Feb. 14, 2016 Researchers have taken CSI to a new level: employing science to investigate details of the materials and methods used by Roman-Egyptian artists to paint mummy portraits more than 2,000 years ago. ...
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Feb. 14, 2016 Anthropologists are studying the ancient and modern human microbiome and the role it plays in human health and disease. By applying genomic and proteomic sequencing technologies to ancient human ...
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Feb. 10, 2016 Isotope analysis of 2,000-year-old skeletons buried in Imperial Rome reveal some were migrants from the Alps or North Africa, according to a new study ...
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Feb. 10, 2016 The Roman Emperors used to spend their summers in the city of Baia, near Naples. With the passage of time, however, the majority of their luxury villas became immersed under water. Italian and ...
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Feb. 10, 2016 At the foot of the Mycenaean Acropolis of Thorikos (Greece), a team of mining archaeologists has just discovered an inextricable network of galleries, shafts and chambers. About 5 kilometers of ...
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Jan. 19, 2016 For the first time, researchers have been able to directly estimate the Anglo-Saxon ancestry of the British population, using ancient skeletons. Human remains excavated from burial sites near ...
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Jan. 13, 2016 The bacteria that causes plague, Y. pestis, may have persisted long-term in Europe from the 14th to 17th century in an unknown reservoir, according to a new ...
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Jan. 8, 2016 Intestinal parasites such as whipworm became increasingly common across Europe during the Roman Period, despite the apparent improvements the empire brought in sanitation technologies, archaeological ...
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Jan. 6, 2016 An ancient Aegean city not only recovered but also flourished following the collapse of the Bronze Age, a new study shows. Recent fieldwork at the ancient city of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete ...
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Dec. 28, 2015 Scientists have sequenced first ancient Irish human genomes, demonstrating that the genomes show unequivocal evidence for mass migrations into Ireland. These genetic influxes are likely to have ...
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Dec. 21, 2015 Humans haven't learned much in more than 2,000 years when it comes to religion and politics. Religion has led to social tension and conflict, not just in today's society, but dating back to ...
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Dec. 18, 2015 This first evidence of a Jewish village on the site strengthens the hypothesis, that until now was no more than folklore, that this is the “Kursi” mentioned in the New Testament as one of the ...
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Dec. 17, 2015 The Ancient Egyptian papyrus Cairo 86637 calendar is the oldest preserved historical document of naked eye observations of a variable star, the eclipsing binary Algol -- a manifestation of Horus, a ...
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Dec. 10, 2015 Insights into Roman and medieval domestic life has been revealed by archaeologists whose project has taken place below a former city center bus ...
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Dec. 3, 2015 Archaeologists have found evidence of raw materials trade between Bronze Age Iran and ...
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Dec. 2, 2015 Excavations by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at near the southern wall of the Temple Mount have unearthed an impression of the royal seal of King Hezekiah (727-698 BCE). This is the first seal ...
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Nov. 11, 2015 Humans have been exploiting bees as far back as the Stone Age, according to new ...
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Nov. 10, 2015 An archaeological expedition has recorded 22 shipwrecks over 13 days in what may be the ancient shipwreck capital of the ...
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Nov. 9, 2015 Mining in the Alps dates back much further than previously thought – in the Austrian region of Montafon since the Bronze Age. Thanks to C14 dating, a group of researchers was able to detect in the ...
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