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.
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 ...
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 ...
Philadelphia museum, Egyptian archaeologists discover tomb of unnamed pharaoh
Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a ...
Archaeologists Find Huge Tomb of Unknown Pharaoh in Egypt
The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new ...
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On the Origin of the Pork Taboo
“There are an amazing number of misconceptions people continue to have about pigs,” says archaeologist Max Price of Durham University ... Nevertheless, archaeological evidence shows that ...