Each time I sit through the end credits of a film, I think about how weird auteur theory is—that a work of cinema can be primarily thought of as the singular vision of the director.

Archaeologists have analyzed dozens of skeletons from a mass burial in a well. The lack of injuries suggests the people may have died from a plague rather than a battle.

Archaeologists working at Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye have uncovered rectangular buildings just beneath the surface in a newly

More than two thousand years ago, in the middle of the Iron Age, the Celts built a large fortified settlement on two peninsulas that extended into the Rhine River, near what is now the Swiss city of S...

A new study has retrieved human genetic material from the walls of caves with ancient rock art.

The Archaeological Park of Pompeii has recreated the Canon of Polykleitos, a masterpiece of ancient Greek sculpture.

Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins stood up to 190 centimetres tall

The 2016 discovery of a large mass grave in the ancient cemetery of Phaleron, on the coast of Athens, shocked the archaeological community and the general public. There lay the remains of 79 adult men...

The mummies of two people who lived in Chile more than 400 years ago carry DNA from smallpox, providing the first molecular evidence that the virus was brought to the Americas from Europe

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human ...

Silk production skills had reached Central Asia as early as 4000 years ago, long before the beginning of the historic Silk Road.

A new lidar survey of dense Amazonian rainforest has revealed hundreds of earthworks made by a mysterious civilization two millennia ago.

“We can almost look through the eyes of [Europe's earliest Homo sapiens] and see how they viewed the environment around them” https://t.co/sMoVV2DyWK

Newly excavated bones from Gran Dolina cave in Spain reveal an ancient human relative practiced cannibalism on adults and children, but researchers still don't know why.

Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists' understanding of one of humanity's extinct relatives. A paper published in Proceedings of the National A...

Una sala de la Cova Dones presenta 120 inscripciones dedicadas a la desconocida diosa Malaci, el mayor número de firmas hallado en un santuario de la época

Écoutez en ligne les podcasts qui approfondissent le récit de l'Odyssée d'Homère. Extraits des Chemins de la Philosophie de France Culture.

The presentation of the project took place in the Palestra Grande of the Excavations, at the end of the International Workshop Pompeii: Excavations and Ongoing Research, held in the Park Auditorium. D...

It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling study has the likely answer.

Trahi par un ami, notre premier réflexe consiste à chercher à comprendre. En politique, le scénario traverse les époques avec un succès constant, depuis Jules César, qui pourtant semblait avoir tout r...

A team of researchers has unearthed in the mountains of southern Norway the remains of several wooden fish traps dating back 7,000 years, a finding that demonstrates that hunter-gatherer-fisher soc…

A study finds that Neanderthals had comparable insect trace evidence as gorillas and western chimpanzees.

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A team of Russian archaeologists and zoologists has managed, for the first time with such extensive material, to determine the age and sex of the horses that the Scythians sacrificed and buried in …

Vers 1200 av. J.-C., dans l’est de la Méditerranée, les civilisations de l’âge du bronze déclinent ou disparaissent, à l’instar de Troie, cité dont Homère raconte la chute. Mais peut-on parler d’un « ...

Archaeologists studying Bronze Age tombs in Cyprus identified 3,400-year-old gold diadems, including one found on the forehead of a four-

Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic material lasts longer in hot climates than was previously thought.

Et si l’Odyssée était aussi un atlas ? Pendant des siècles, des érudits ont tenté d'identifier les escales d'Ulysse sur les rivages de la Méditerranée, brouillant sans cesse la frontière entre histoir...

Three new kings of Assyria may have been erased from official history. Cuneiform records reveal brief reigns, rebellions and disputed successions.

A Czech-Uzbek archaeological team has managed to unravel the true nature of a Hellenistic-era site in southern Uzbekistan. What in 2018 seemed to be just a simple group of half-buried pots with hardly...

A microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago.

Hannibal crossed the Alps with a large army containing 37 war elephants in 218 BC. Details of his route have scholars regularly debate historical r...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey taken down by Komodo dragons.

A newly published study reveals a rare 12th-century wild boar tusk amulet from Veliky Novgorod, linking hunting, elite status, metalworking,

An Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Marina El Alamein Archaeological Site on Egypt's northwestern Mediterranean coast has uncovered 18 ancient tombs, together with a collection of sarcop...

Ancient boat carvings in Iberia and Scandinavia suggest long-distance seafaring, maritime networks and shared Bronze Age symbolism

An ancient-DNA analysis of the bones of two members of the Renaissance Medici family has confirmed they had malaria when they died.

Ekip son teknoloji DNA çıkarma ve dizileme yöntemlerini kullanarak boyalı ve boyasız mağara duvarı parçalarını, tortuları, kemikleri ve boya uygulamak için kullanılan nadir bir püskürtme aletini anali...

Prehistoric humans were emotionally and socially sophisticated in how they handled death, and the archaelogical evidence at Arene Candide proves it.