Early collective ritual practices in the Levant
A 36,000-year-old Paleolithic ritual chamber discovered.
We might feel love in our fingertips –– but did the Ancient Mesopotamians?
Researchers studied ancient texts to see whether humans experience emotions in their bodies in a similar manner, regardless of time, language and culture.
Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture
What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process?
Findings shed new light on the evolution of the human brain
Research uncovers major trends in the evolution of hominin brain size over a period of about million years.
Viking colonizers of Iceland and nearby Faroe Islands had very different origins, study finds
Band of Viking men from all over Scandinavia first settled Faroe Islands show geneticists.
Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
We know from history that there are many ways we can live together—let’s explore the idea.
Deciphering the Untold of the Ancients
A scholar speaks about his personal academic journey and some of the common elements and patterns that constitute the continuing efforts to shed light on still-undeciphered ancient scripts the...
USF study confirms Egyptians drank hallucinogenic cocktails in ancient rituals
New paper’s findings reveal a mix of psychedelic drugs, body fluids and alcohol likely used for fertility rituals.
