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.
Meet the first Neanderthal family
Ancient genomes of thirteen Neandertals provide a rare snapshot of their community and social organization.
Ancient Maya cities were dangerously contaminated with mercury
Exposure to mercury may have posed health hazard for ancient Maya.
The Anglo-Saxon migration: new insights from genetics
Genetic and archaeological study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period.
Paleontologists at the University of Malaga reveal new data on the evolution of the hominid cranium
They show changes in the development of the dimensions, based on the analysis of four new hominid fossils.
Why do humans walk upright? The secret is in our pelvis
New study shows how pelvis evolved for walking upright.
Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neanderthals
Researchers from Dresden uncover a greater neuron production in the frontal lobe during brain development in modern humans than Neanderthals, due to the change of a single amino acid...
