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Dog Bones Dated Between Circa 4200 and 4000 BCE Discovered A team of archaeologists in north-west of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has uncovered the earliest evidence of dog domestication by the region’s ancient inhabitants. The discovery came from one of the projects in the large-scale archaeol...

Three Venetian songbooks thought to be from the 1600s were revealed as 20th-century forgeries. In 1916 and 1917, a musician and book dealer named Giovanni Concina sold three ornately decorated seventeenth-century songbooks to a library in Venice, Italy. Now, more than 100 years later, a musicologist...

Paper Offers Foundation To Advance Search for Leonardo’s DNA Leonardo Da Vinci: New family tree spans 21 generations, 690 years, finds 14 living male descendants. The surprising results of a decade-long investigation by Alessandro Vezzosi and Agnese Sabato provide a strong basis for advancing a proj...

Ancient DNA has reshaped our view of human origins, revealing deep interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans and complex early splits within Africa. As we face global challenges like pandemics and climate change, ancient DNA offers a biological mirror to our past resilience and a guide for futu...

In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October, he had been staying in the secure side of the airport, relying on the kindness of strangers to buy him food, sleeping in ...

Earth’s shifting landscapes keep resurfacing relics of war. On November 11, the United States honors those who have served in the armed forces with the federal holiday Veterans Day. Elsewhere in the world, this date is observed as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. Today it is a day to honor all vete...

Russia and Ukraine: What is at stake in this crisis? Northwestern experts in history, international relations and political science explain. As Russian forces close in on Kyiv, “a new world order” is upon us and Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will echo for years to come, according to Jordan Ga...

Bread, an ancient staple, is experiencing a renaissance with healthier options, restoring its place as a nutritious food despite its modern bad reputation. Bread, that simple “staff of life,” has gotten a bad reputation in recent years, mainly from those who advocate low-carb or gluten-f...

Ancient DNA From an American Domesticated Horse Lends Credence to Shipwreck Folklore An abandoned Caribbean colony discovered centuries later and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record have colluded to rewrite the history of a barrier island off the shores of Virginia and Mary...

A New Study Reveals Ferns’ History of DNA Hoarding and Kleptomania Ferns are infamous for having an enormous number of chromosomes and massive amounts of DNA. A fern no larger than a dinner plate currently holds the record for the highest chromosome count, with 720 pairs packed into each of its nucl...

Scientists discover that a modern pesticide accelerated the corrosion of an ancient Roman relic. Chlorobenzenes, a chemical that was once used in pesticides and is known to accumulate in soil and water sources, have been detected in traces on a corroded Roman bowl that dates to the Late Iron Age (be...

A new study reveals major demographic changes in the Balkan region during the first millennium, including the migration of Slavic-speaking populations after the fall of the Roman Empire. A Mississippi State University (MSU) anthropologist’s bioarchaeological analysis and bone samples from ancient Ro...

New technology interprets archaeological findings from Biblical times. The new study scientifically corroborates an event described in the Second Book of Kings – the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael King of Aram. The method is based on measuring the magnetic field recorded in burnt ...

A major research project has produced a collection of ‘bone biographies’ that narrate the lives of individuals from medieval Cambridge, as interpreted from their skeletal remains. These biographies shed light on the daily experiences of people during the period of the Black Death and its...

Could a family’s obsidian blade be a clue to the expedition’s trail? It’s a small piece of obsidian, just over 5 centimeters long, likely found on a hard-scrabble piece of ranchland in the Texas panhandle. But when SMU anthropologist Matthew Boulanger looks at it, he gets a mental image of Spanish e...

The spectacular explosion of the mine at Hawthorn Ridge – a fortified German front-line position in the First World War – marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, and remains one of the best-known pieces of film from the whole conflict. More than 60ft below the surface, British miners had du...

University of Leicester Archaeological Services rediscovers 46 sites at the Eastern Sovereign Base Area at Dhekelia, Cyprus Scientists from the University of Leicester, collaborating with the Ministry of Defence, have successfully rediscovered over forty archaeological sites in Cyprus, some of which...

Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century – over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial Revolution – according to the most detailed occupational history of a nation ever constructed. Built from more than 1...

Researchers from the University of Sharjah and the Warburg Institute are diligently studying the works of an 11th-century Arab-Muslim polymath to showcase their influence on the evolution of optical sciences and how they have fundamentally transformed the history of physics from the Middle Ages up t...

A groundbreaking study from Tel Aviv University dispels long-standing myths about King Solomon’s Mines, revealing that ancient copper production in Timna Valley caused minimal and localized environmental harm. Researchers used advanced geochemical surveys to determine that pollution levels were far ...

Ancient, repurposed parchments reveal hidden and forgotten traces of Iceland’s history. Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, Iceland has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in two Icelanders writes books. The literary tradition stretches all ...

New research reveals that Flagstones in Dorset dates back to 3,200 BC, offering new insight into the origins of monumental architecture in the Neolithic period. Archaeological research at the prehistoric Dorset burial site known as Flagstones has identified it as the earliest known large circular en...

Early humans likely used naturally sharp rocks before making their own tools, a new hypothesis suggests, potentially pushing the origin of stone technology back millions of years. The development of sharp stone tools over three million years ago enabled early humans to more effectively access both a...

Ancient housing data shows that wealth inequality often followed land monopolization but was sometimes curbed by inclusive governance. If current interpretations of the archaeological record are correct, stone alignments found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge may be the remains of shelters built 1.7 mill...

Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old standardized bone tools in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of early hominin technology by over a million years. The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania shows that early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities and were ...

Æthelstan biographer says England’s first king deserves to be remembered as anniversaries near. A new biography of Æthelstan, recently published to mark the 1,100th anniversary of his coronation in 925AD, reaffirms his claim as the first king of England and sheds light on why his achievements remain...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The first Bible to include a map of the Holy Land was published in 1525, marking its 500th anniversary this...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New findings from researchers at the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa are changing how scholars understand ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Medi...