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Dramatic reconstructions of local people who lived up to 4,000 years ago will go on display thanks to advanced DNA techniques
Une étude parue dans Science révèle que population humaine pourrait s'être maintenue à environ 1 300 individus pendant une centaine de millier
Archaeologists have discovered 50 tombs in an ancient necropolis just meters from a busy train station in central Paris, and these tombs belong to a lost necropolis of the Gallo-Roman city of Lutetia, the predecessor of present-day Paris.
Une toute nouvelle étude montre qu’Homo sapiens maîtrisait déjà le tir à l’arc il y a plus de 50 000 ans, grâce à des fouilles archéologiques dans la Grotte Mandrin.
Two thousand-year-old object found at Roman fort in Northumberland in 1992 has been reassessed by archaeologists
Sexuality in Ancient Rome was more preoccupied with power dynamics than it was with gender – as an expert in visual cultures of sexuality explains.
DNA analysis reveals a large migration of people into Scandinavia during Viking times.
Ongoing excavations in northern Iraq add to our knowledge of the neo-Assyrian empire – and the beauty of its cities.
The discoveries shed light on what the Italian Culture Ministry calls a "unique multicultural and multilingual haven of peace" between Etruscans and Romans at a time when they were mostly at war.
BBC NI weather presenter Barra Best takes a closer look at one theory regarding the origin of Halloween.
During this year's excavations at Ephesus in Turkey, archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AW) discovered an incredibly
The authors of a new article published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory argue that they have found evidence of the use of baby carriers 10,000 years ago at the Arma Veirana site in Liguria, Italy. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
New excavations in Uppåkra are at the forefront of cutting edge archaeological techniques. By combining big data, data modeling and DNA sequencing, researchers are currently solving significant parts of a historical puzzle. Perhaps we will learn whether the Justinianic Plague, the forerunner of the Black Death, reached Uppåkra. Until now, this has been uncertain.
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Les conditions de la disparition de notre cousin Neandertal restent mystérieuses. Et si on prenait le problème à l’envers pour savoir quelles conditions ont permis son émergence ?
Yves Coppens doit se retourner dans sa tombe : plusieurs aménagements brutaux ont été réalisés, cet hiver et au printemps, aux abords des alignements (...)
The Casas del Turuñuelo site is the best-preserved building on land in the western Mediterranean to date.
The "luxury object" would likely have only been used by high-ranking members of the ancient palace in China's Shaanxi Province.
Une tomographie assistée par ordinateur a révélé 49 amulettes, dont beaucoup sont en or, destinées à protéger le séjour dans l’au-delà d’un adolescent mort dans le sud de l’Egypte il y a environ 2 300 ans.
Pouvoir identifier quelle espèce a pu laisser des traces de son passage n’est pas chose aisée. Découvrez comment les scientifiques enquêtent pour trouver les « coupables ».
A new survey revealed nearly 1,000 Maya settlements, with pyramids and ballcourts, that date back more than 2,000 years.
The tombs were discovered at the Tell El Deir archaeological site, a massive necropolis used to bury dead throughout different eras of history - Click the link for more details.
The new ‘docuseries’ makes grand claims about our ice age ancestors. Here’s why you should proceed with caution.
The glass is the first archeological find of its kind and it is believed that the original vessel it was part of would have been made in Syria, Iraq or Egypt in the 12th or 13th century.
Researchers and Indigenous people teamed up to use oral legends and science to discover an archeology site
Les Néandertaliens étaient-ils carnivores ? Les scientifiques n’ont pas encore tranché la question. Si certaines études du tartre dentaire d’individus venant de la péninsule ibérique pouvaient laisser penser qu’ils étaient de grands consommateurs de plantes, d’autres recherches menées sur des sites non ibériques semblaient plutôt indiquer une consommation quasi exclusive de viande.
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