On an island in the Rann of Kutch, the Harappan city of Dholavira thrived for fifteen centuries thanks to a genius for water: cut reservoirs, dams …
Read the article →Dental grooves found on hominin fossils were interpreted as evidence of social care between individuals. A 2025 AJBA study shows they appear in pri…
Read the article →A study published in Nature in 2026 has identified domestic dogs 15,800 years old in Anatolia and 14,300 years old in Britain, pushing back the old…
Read the article →In 2019, the DNA of a Harappan woman from Rakhigarhi revealed a profile with no steppe ancestry: a mix of South Asian hunter-gatherers and an ancie…
Read the article →A new theory published in BioEssays suggests that burns inflicted by fire use exerted selective pressure on human genes linked to wound healing -- helping explain our skin's unique characteristics compared to other primates.
The 8th excavation campaign at Casas del Turuñuelo has yielded half a votive bronze chariot decorated with Achelous, griffins and Atlantes — the first of its kind ever discovered in the entire Iberian Peninsula.
A study published in Science reveals that the "deserts" of Neanderthal DNA on our X chromosome are explained not by genetic incompatibility, but by a mating bias: male Neanderthals preferentially paired with female Homo sapiens.
A groundbreaking study analyzing 12,000 European skeletons reveals that men have had greater access to animal protein than women since the Neolithic. A dietary dimorphism rooted in social norms, not biology.
In the Nile Delta, archaeologists have uncovered an exceptional Greco-Roman cemetery: seven centuries of funerary syncretism, wild boars buried in ritual contexts, and barrel-shaped pottery coffins — a first in Egypt.
Gold earrings, gold-plated scarabs, obsidian kohl containers: Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities has announced the first near-complete funerary cache ever discovered at the Heliopolis necropolis.
Discovered in 2004 in Yakutia and reconstructed in 3D by NEFU University in Yakutsk, a 4,200-year-old Ymyyakhtakh bow-warrior carries a Y chromosome that survives today among the Chukchi, Koryak and Even peoples of Kamchatka, according to a 2026 study in the Journal of Human Genetics.
A study published in PLOS ONE in 2026 provides new evidence that hominins -- most likely Homo erectus -- were introducing and maintaining fire inside Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa) between 1.79 and 1.07 million years ago, pushing the history of controlled fire deep into the Early Pleistocene.
At Kurd Qaburstan in Iraqi Kurdistan, a University of Central Florida team has unearthed cuneiform tablets, fortifications and the remains of seventeen victims of a Middle Bronze Age siege, the most complete known record of siege warfare in northern Mesopotamia.
In Upper Egypt, two tombs dated to the Early Dynastic period (c. 3100-2686 BCE) show an unusual geometry, walls thick at the base and tapering towards the top, that may foreshadow step pyramids. They recall the tomb of King Den at Abydos.
A fire that destroyed a Spanish Bronze Age village 3,500 years ago paradoxically preserved an almost complete loom: wood, cords and forty-four clay weights. A rare find for understanding Europe's textile revolution.
Silent for a century, the script of the kingdom of Elam, in Iran, has been deciphered by François Desset thanks to silver vases. Its lesson: writing was not invented only in Mesopotamia; Iran did so in parallel.
On the island of Gozo, Malta, the Ġgantija temples were built between −3,600 and −2,500. They are the world's oldest freestanding stone structures, more than a millennium older than the pyramids of Giza. The civilisation that built them vanished without known descendants.
Read more →In the heart of Madhya Pradesh, over 700 rock shelters preserve paintings from the Mesolithic to historic times: hunts, dances, animals. Proof that rock art was a global phenomenon, not only a European one.
Read more →In March 2026, the description of <em>Crocodylus lucivenator</em> — a giant crocodile contemporary with Australopithecus afarensis — prompts a major dossier on the Afar Triangle and African Pliocene: the ecosystem where our bipedal ancestors emerged 3 to 4 million years ago.
Read more →History Forge traces the history of the Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi): from the first farmers of the Colorado Plateau to the Great Abandonment of 1300 CE. Cliff architecture, Chaco Canyon, ceremonial kivas -- a forgotten civilisation whose Hopi and Zuni descendants keep its legacy alive.
Watch the documentary →Its entrance is 37 metres below the sea. Its paintings are 27,000 years old. Cosquer Cave, discovered by a diver in 1985 in the Marseille calanques, is the only known decorated cave in the world whose access is submerged, a masterpiece that rising seas threaten to engulf for ever.
Watch the documentary →Since 2019, dozens of international teams have returned to Mesopotamian sites around Mosul, inaccessible for half a century. This ARTE documentary follows their excavations and traces the history of the Sumerian and Assyrian dynasties.
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