Ancient tombs reveal the story of Chinese history
Burial site distributions illustrate how people lived and died over thousands of years.
Neanderthal DNA reveals ancient long-distance migrations
Tiny 5 cm long bone allows insights into crucial period when Neanderthals disappeared and Homo sapiens replaced them.
TU Graz conducts research into endangered cultural heritage in the Western Himalayas
Using 3D technology and interdisciplinary expertise, a research team has explored Buddhist temples in the remote Dolpo region of Nepal and digitized them for posterity.
New radiocarbon dating of Egyptian artifacts puts Thera (Santorini) volcanic eruption prior to Pharaoh Ahmose
First study given access to artifacts in British museums for radiocarbon dating the transition period between the Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
Training AI to identify ancient artists
Griffith researchers built and tested a digital archaeology framework to learn more about the ancient humans who created one of the oldest forms of rock art, finger fluting.
Ancient lead exposure shaped evolution of human brain
A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. Instead, the findings reveal our human ancestors were periodically exposed...
Paranthropus and the Greatest Whodunit of All Time
Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of...
A Scholar’s Quest to Find the Ancestral People of the Most Influential Language on Earth
Who and where were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? Almost 450 languages spoken by 4 billion people descend from their tongue—and J.P. Mallory has been on a life-long journey to reconstruct their...
