People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Introduction...
Archaeology
Rock art is the primary source to study the culture, rituals, traditions, and lives of prehistoric societies....
The first appearance of these drawings can be dated back to the age of Epipaleolithic (20000-1000 BP)....
A place for the performance of rituals of congregation. Abstract The discovery of the early bronze age...
The name museum derives from the nine Muses of Greek mythology, each of which was credited with...
We can now catch tiny pieces of DNA from ancient diseases and look for clues about how...
An archaeological field school experience shines a light on the grave concerns people have about the treatment...
Modern DNA analyses give an indication of what might be learned from ancient studies. By Dr. Roy...
Ancient iron nails would hardly be considered Art, but they could offer insights on Roman metalworking. Introduction...
At the time Europeans first began exploring the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River region, three Native confederacies...
We have all seen metal detectors being used in cartoons as children and then in movies. The...
Each of the two tombs was built in a dome-shape structure known as a tholos. A team...
A medieval world where caves and underground shelters provided refuge from raiders, allowing a threatened civilization to...
Researchers have extracted a complete ancient human genome from birch pitch, a 5,700-year-old type of ancient “chewing...
20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past?...
The good metal preservation probably results from the moderately alkaline pH, a very small particle size of...
The bones show interbreeding Neanderthal and Denosivan humans. This article reprinted from RFE/RL. A piece of bone...
A mysterious object carved on a Roman gem reminds us that the smallest things hold clues to...
The scroll was discovered and painstakingly unrolled in 1795. More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the...
Caria was ruled by satraps who were subject to Cyrus the Great. Introduction Located at the crossroads...
Armed conflict in Syria has been a disaster for the area’s cultural heritage. A displaced archaeologist describes...
The mysterious Plain of Jars in Laos is giving archaeologists clues to an ancient civilization. Introduction In...
For nearly 2,000 uninterrupted years, the region’s ancient inhabitants drew thousands of large-scale zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures...
What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. In the 1970s,...
About 19,000 years ago in southwestern France at a site called Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, an adult woman dies and...
Glass beads, more than any other type of artifact, help us make sense of the last 600...
Remainders of Crete’s extraordinary past are scattered all over the island. Introduction As the cradle of European Civilization and...
Numerous excavations and a fairly large number of contemporary written documents give us a good picture of...
Research around Angkor Wat suggests its collapse might be better described as a transformation. By Dr. Alison...
Modern technology and research restores an ancient Egyptian woman, Meritamun, creating a unique teaching tool for medicine...