Zooarchaeologist Dr Geoff Smith studied more than a thousand bone fragments found at the site of Ranis and Dr Karen Ruebens helped identify them through ancient protein analyses. Dr Ruebens and Dr ...

Excavations conducted at the ancient site of Shakhi Kora in northern ... indicate the origins of the state and its institutions in Mesopotamia lie in part at least in their ability to provide ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian temple hidden in a cliff face. The temple dates to around 2,100 years ago and was discovered at the site of Athribis, located about 125 miles (200 ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...

For nearly 300 years, a family’s ancestral house in India's southern state of Kerala has been the stage for theyyam, an ancient folk ritual. Rooted in ancient tribal traditions, theyyam predates ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an "exceptional" ancient Celtic burial ground and an early farming settlement from the Stone Age in the Czech Republic, among other finds. The Archaeological Center ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

Two ancient hominid species with slightly different gaits crossed paths in East Africa. Footprints preserved on what was once a muddy lakeshore indicate that the two species, each built to walk in ...

Humans have been baking for millennia, and now, reconstructions of ancient baking trays suggests the families in Mesopotamia ... previously found in the Fertile Crescent, an area between major ...

Focaccia has been a staple of Italian meals since at least ancient Rome ... Reports and focus on evidence recovered across the Fertile Crescent in what is now Syria and Turkey.

The new findings were published on November 5th in the journal Scientific Reports and focus on evidence recovered across the Fertile Crescent in ... trays in making ancient flatbreads such as ...