By Erin Branham / 10.07.2012 Education Specialist for Family Programs Getty Villa I’m a fan of religion. That sounds glib,...
Archaeology
The archaeological site at Knossos, with restored rooms in the background, Crete (photo: Jebulon, public domain) By Dr....
Conservators working in the tomb of Nefertari. Photo: Guillermo Aldana Newly catalogued archives document years of conservation...
Indigenous Australians created elaborate rock art, as shown here in Arnhem Land. P. Taçon , Author provided By Dr. Michelle...
the mid-19th century, brothels were just one among many businesses in Boston’s North End. / Bostonian Society...
This mosaic from the Antakya Archaeological Museum, Hatay Province, Turkey dates to the 2nd Century CE and depicts a black African...
Photo by Ivor Molleema, Florida Department of State In an unprecedented discovery, archaeologists identify a site where...
Ivory beads and ochre—affixed to the pelvic bones of a child—likely decorated the burial clothing of this...
David Williams/SAPIENS Anthropologists in Cyprus are quietly working to unite the intensely divided island country—by finding and...
A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called “Taíno”, the first indigenous Americans to feel...
Neanderthal art. P. Saura By Dr. Chris Standish (left) and Dr. Alistair Pike (right) / 02.22.2018 Standish:...
By Dr. Austin Mason and Dr. Tom Williamson Mason: Assistant Professor of History, Carleton College Williamson:...
These “oracle bone” fragments, some of which show an ancient Chinese script, are housed at the Royal...
The skeleton of the teenage girl, and the remnants of her burial, as discovered by Cambridge University...
During Wintersession, students learn to make and use the technology that revolutionized human life. The atlatl, or...
Artefacts revealed by melting ice patches in the high mountains of Oppland shed new light on ancient...
Forum Boarium in the Imperial Age, Lanciani FUR, tab. XXVIII, detail “A very popular area exists that...
Ankhesenamun hands Tut an arrow / Creative Commons By Jason Daley / 01.19.2018 King Tut became a...
New excavations on the remote island of Keros reveal monumental architecture and technological sophistication at the dawn...
The six-line inscription in Ancient Greek found on the fragment of a 6th century AD Byzantine amphora...
The Rosetta Stone, 196 B.C.E., Ptolemaic Period, 112.3 x 75.7 x 28.4 cm, Egypt © Trustees of...
A conservator shows a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority say belonged...
What was life in the fens like in the period known as the dark ages? Archaeologist Susan...
Every object in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology tells not just one but many stories. The...
“Fossil scout” Pedro Boshoff inside the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, where Homo naledi fossils were found....
Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in...
Zooarchaeologist E. Grace Veatch investigates rat remains near the Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of...
Map of France showing the location of Lascaux By Mary Beth Looney / 11.19.2015 Acting Program Director...
“We will lose much of the record of the last several thousand years of human occupation in...
A large Late Roman settlement near Bulgaria’s Moshtanets, which was also inhabited earlier, ca. 1,000 BC, has...