Stepping Out of Africa: Early Human Footprints in Arabia
Fossilized footprints provide evidence of a human presence in the Saudi Arabian desert about 120,000 years ago.
World’s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian
Invaders, pirates, warriors - the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and...
Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
Ancient earthquake may have caused destruction of Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri
Flourishing Canaanite palatial site suddenly abandoned 3,700 years ago; new evidence points to earthquake as probable culprit.
Tel Aviv University study confirms widespread literacy in biblical-period kingdom of Judah
Texts dating back to around 600 BCE were written by 12 different authors.
The oldest Neanderthal DNA of Central-Eastern Europe
An 80,000-year-old Neanderthal reveals cultural and genetic affinities between Poland and the Northern Caucasus.
The mathematical values of Linear A fraction signs
Unravelling number enigmas on ancient Crete.
Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas
Results show possible council circle at what may be Etzanoa near Wichita.
New mathematical method shows how climate change led to fall of ancient civilization
Chaos paper by RIT Assistant Professor Nishant Malik applies method to Indus Valley Civilization.
How Neanderthals adjusted to climate change
German-Italian research project investigates different cutting tools from the Sesselfelsgrotte cave.
Vast stone monuments constructed in Arabia 7,000 years ago
New archaeological research in Saudi Arabia documents hundreds of stone structures interpreted as monumental sites where early pastoralists carried out rituals.
Researchers link end of Green Sahara with SE Asia megadrought
Previously unknown mid-Holocene event led to major changes in human settlement.
Animal mummies unwrapped with hi-res 3D X-rays
Scans give clues to how they lived and died.
Analysis of ancient Mesoamerican sculptures supports universality of emotional expressions
Universal facial expressions uncovered in art of the ancient Americas: A computational approach.
