Drought encouraged Attila’s Huns to attack the Roman empire, tree rings suggest
Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire,...
Rare Half-Shekel Coin from the Great Revolt Found in Jerusalem’s Ophel Excavations
Half-shekel coin, the third of its kind, found in Jerusalem.
Ancient stone tools from China provide earliest evidence of rice harvesting
Striations and residue reflect harvesting methods.
Ancient Roman coins reveal long-lost emperor
A gold coin long dismissed as a forgery appears to be authentic and depicts a long-lost Roman emperor named Sponsian, according to a new study led by a University...
1,700-year-old spider monkey remains discovered in Teotihuacán, Mexico
Researchers found thousands of other items, but the skeletal remains of the monkey point to the earliest evidence of primate captivity, translocation, and gift diplomacy between Teotihuacán and Mayan...
Researchers discovered Egypt’s oldest tomb oriented to winter solstice
Located in the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa, it is precisely oriented to the sunrise of the winter solstice, in such a way that the sun's rays bathed with its...
Footprints claimed as evidence of ice age humans in North America need better dating, new research shows
The preserved footprints found in New Mexico’s Lake Otero Basin would upend scientific understanding of how, and when, humans first arrived in North America, if they are accurately dated....
World Famous Hegra’s Tomb enters the Metaverse
The Royal Commission for AlUla enters the Metaverse with first fully explorable 3D model of Hegra’s Tomb of Lihyan, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Footprints indicate the presence of humans in Southern Spain in the Middle Pleistocene, 200,000 years earlier than previously thought
This discovery is vitally important for the study of the evolutionary model of hominins in the Middle Pleistocene in Europe.
First sentence ever written in Canaanite language discovered: Plea to eradicate beard lice
Hebrew University unearths ivory comb from 1700 BCE inscribed with plea to eradicate lice—"May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard”.
Cocoa: Not Just for Kings and Priests
A study shows that cacao was not the exclusive province of the ancient Maya elite at El Pilar.
Massive Late Neolithic animal traps in Arabia have archaeologists mobilized
Gigantic animal traps are the largest stone structures of their time.
