18+ hour, 15+ min ago  (87+ words) Cylinder seals were far more than ancient signatures. They fused art, power, and belief into objects that revealed exactly who their owners were....

18+ hour, 16+ min ago  (162+ words) Tutankhamun’s 1925 examination left behind evidence that official accounts largely omitted. A closer look at the records reveals a troubling gap between scientific history and what actually happened....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (325+ words) Ancient DNA from Shimao reveals local origins, broad prehistoric connections, a patrilineal social structure, and gender-specific patterns of human sacrifice. At Shimao, a vast stone-walled settlement in northern China, ancient DNA is filling in details that archaeology alone could not…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (907+ words) Mediterranean soil chemistry may have caused archaeologists to overidentify olive oil in ancient pottery. For archaeologists, a trace of olive oil inside an ancient pot can do more than identify a meal. It can point to trade networks, farming choices,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (391+ words) A cache of centuries-old gold coins has helped uncover the story of a lost Dutch trading ship. The identification is detailed in the new book From Morocco to the Coast of England: The Story of the Dom van Keulen and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (228+ words) A new study of the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro challenges a long-held view of history by suggesting that prosperity did not lead to greater inequality....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (381+ words) A Scottish crannog older than Stonehenge has been mapped in new detail using a shallow-water 3D imaging technique. Archaeologists at the University of Southampton have excavated and documented a large wooden platform concealed beneath what now looks like a stone island…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (932+ words) Ancient genomes from northwest Europe show that farming, foraging, migration, and marriage shaped prehistory in ways far more complex than earlier models suggested. When ancient DNA research began drawing major attention a little over a decade ago, many geneticists came…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (372+ words) Luminescence dating has confirmed Roman exploitation of alluvial gold in the Eastern Pyrenees for the first time. For centuries, stories of gold hidden in the rivers of the Pyrenees have circulated across the Iberian Peninsula, with even medieval Islamic sources…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (507+ words) A small, newly uncovered document from ancient Dongola is reshaping what historians know about a little-understood period in Sudan’s past....