The Mystery of Human Brains Preserved Intact for Thousands of Years
Against all expectations, the brain is one of the most commonly preserved organs in archaeological contexts. A Journal of Proteome Research study catalogues over 4,…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Lying horizontally inside the wall of a room between Enclosures B and D, a human statue more than 12,000 years old has been uncovered at Göbekli Te…
Read the article →Roped up like mountaineers, Russian archaeologists found thirty-one unknown engraved surfaces along the Pegtymel in August 2026, Asia's only rock a…
Read the article →Engineers ran a thousand numerical simulations on the walls of the Grat Be'al Gibri palace, built around 800 BCE in northern Ethiopia. The verdict:…
Read the article →The Marathousa 1 site in the Megalopolis basin, Greece, has yielded 430,000-year-old worked wood fragments -- the oldest portable wooden tools ever…
Read the article →Against all expectations, the brain is one of the most commonly preserved organs in archaeological contexts. A Journal of Proteome Research study catalogues over 4,…
Read →In the Keshikchidagh reserve of western Azerbaijan, kurgan no. 4 in the Sariyokhush valley has yielded the remains of a Middle Bronze Age warrior buried with a dior…
Read →Ancient proteomics analysis of 23 teeth from Rising Star Cave reveals no trace of amelogenin Y. Does this mean all individuals buried in the Dinaledi Chamber were female?
A digitally reprocessed photograph reveals that Merneith, a figure of Egypt's First Dynasty, did indeed bear the royal serekh title. She may be the second ruler in ancient Egyptian history to have her name inscribed in this royal emblem.
At the Huaca Yolanda site in Peru's Chao Valley, a polychrome mural more than five metres long has been uncovered. Dated to the Formative Period, its motifs -- stars, fish, fishing nets -- are unprecedented in the region.
At Saqqarah, Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Sekhentio-Ptah, an Old Kingdom official bearing the title "keeper of the secrets of royal decrees", dated to the late Fifth or early Sixth Dynasty.
Read →While packing up in Lower Silesia, Polish archaeologists discovered a Neolithic tumulus by chance: inside, a chief…
Read →An Egyptian mission at Tell Abu Seifi has uncovered a 3,200-year-old inscription mentioning Horus as "Lord of the …
Read →A study published in Science Advances reveals that hunter-gatherers in Sulawesi, Indonesia, were consuming betel n…
Read →A Danish study of pottery from Hama, Syria, shows that 4,500 years ago Near Eastern communities were already using different vessels for different ingredients. Goat, gazelle, and cereals each had their own dedicated pot, revealing a level of culinary sophistication far beyond what was previously assumed.
A comparative genomics study in Science Advances reveals that the Jomon, a prehistoric culture of the Japanese archipelago, developed cold adaptations genetically distinct from those of Inuits and Siberians, illustrating evolutionary convergence.
A palaeogenomics study of 1,237 ancient individuals shows that genetic variants associated with light pigmentation only reached high prevalence in Western Europe during the Bronze Age, just 3,500 to 4,000 years ago.
The tomb of royal scribe Nisemro, created under Thutmose III, was continuously reused for seven centuries by at least twelve distinct individuals -- an exceptional example of funerary reuse in ancient Egypt.
Read →The discovery of 225 faience funerary figurines bearing pharaoh Sheshonq III's titulary formally identifies his to…
Read →A conjurer named Djedi decapitates and revives animals before pharaoh Khufu: the Westcar Papyrus contains the firs…
Read →A study published in MicrobiologyOpen reveals that honey recovered from ancient Egyptian tombs retains remarkable …
Read →Mysterious handbag symbols carved on the pillars of the 11,600-year-old Turkish site of Gobekli Tepe may represent a bird's-eye view of the site itself, making them the earliest known architectural drawings in human history.
Read →A new genetic study reconstructs the repopulation of Britain after the last glacial maximum: two distinct waves se…
Read →A genetic study spanning 300 megalithic tombs shows that the populations who built these monuments almost entirely…
Read →Researchers have identified at Boxgrove the oldest bone hammer in Western Europe: made 500,000 years ago from a fo…
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