4 October 2023
Archaeologists have found life-size camel carvings on a rock near the southern border of Saudi Arabia’s Nafud desert. The Neolithic...
17 August 2023
New DNA analysis by German researchers shows that the famous glacier mummy Ötzi may have had dark skin, dark eyes,...
1 April 2022
Ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years, the Avars were less well known than Attila’s Huns, but...
2 March 2022
Ancient hunter-gatherers living in what is now China may have been the first people in East Asia to process mustard...
4 February 2022
The world’s very first invention of writing took place over 5000 years ago in the Middle East, before it was...
11 November 2021
According to a new study, modern languages ranging from Japanese and Korean to Turkish and Mongolian may have had a...
25 September 2021
A genetic analysis of DNA taken from ancient skeletons appears to have answered a conundrum that has captivated researchers for...
