Ralph Holloway, Anthropologist Who Studied Brain’s Evolution, Dies at 90
It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...
Toddler finds ornate 3,800-year-old artifact with a ‘grand’ biblical connection
Tor, a specialist in ancient amulets and seals, later verified that it was a Canaanite scarab dating back to the Middle ...
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Board approves 12 new faculty appointments
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 12 faculty members, including three full ...
Israeli archaeology professor faces calls to be dropped from nat'l conf. over West Bank dig stance
After publicly boycotting an archaeological conference in Judea and Samaria, a TAU professor finds himself at the center of ...
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From New Yorker Cartoons to a Rare Dalí—5 Gems at the 2025 N.Y. Antiquarian Book Fair
The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair takes over the Park Avenue Armory for the 65th edition of the beloved fair.
Flowering plants, not dinosaurs, drove mammals to ground 72 million years ago
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
Jesus’ burial spot yields new biblical clues about his death and resurrection, scientists say
The uncovered tombs, which were found to be made of marble, have a lot to do with Joseph of Arimathea — the biblical figure ...
Archaeologists found another Egyptian royal tomb—but who does it belong to?
The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...
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Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds
Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to ...
Ancient tombs in Anatolia suggest reverence for youth preceded elite burials
University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...
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Columbia University: Emilio Ambasz Annual Lecture ‘Architecture as Poetry’ Kicks Off with Kengo Kuma
A series of high-level meetings begins, seeking the expression of the poetic in architecture - the first lecture will be with ...
Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East
During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for many ...