Egypt mummies pass through Cairo in ancient rulers’ parade (BBC 04/04/21)
Egyptians have been witnessing a historic procession of their country’s ancient rulers through the capital, Cairo
Genomes of the earliest Europeans (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 07/04/21)
Ancient genomes shed new light on the earliest Europeans and their relationships with Neandertals
Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe (BBC 06/04/21)
A freshly unearthed Bronze-Age stone may be the oldest three-dimensional map in Europe, researchers say
Lunch Break Science #24| Kate McGrath
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science #24| Kate McGrath Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Kate McGrath and learn what the teeth of our ancestors can tell us about their life histories.
In show of Pharaonic heritage, Egypt parades royal mummies (Phys.org 03/04/21)
Egypt held a gala parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies from central Cairo to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital
Humans were apex predators for two million years (EurekAlert 05/04/21)
What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat
Discovery of Peru temple mural reveals complexity of ancient civilization (Efe 03/027/21)
The recent discovery of a 3,200-year-old mural has brought renewed attention to the impressive development and complex cosmovision of the pre-Columbian civilizations that lived in what is now Peru’s northern coastal region.
Warriors’ down bedding could ease journey to realm of the dead (Phys.org 25/03/21)
The burial field in Valsgärde outside Uppsala in central Sweden contains more than 90 graves from the Iron Age
New Evidence in Search for the Mysterious Denisovans (Heritage Daily 23/03/21)
An international group of researchers led by the University of Adelaide has conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and the ancient humans known from fossil records in Island Southeast Asia
Archaeologists Discover Giant Mosaic in Roman Villa Complex (Heritage Daily 24/03/21)
Archaeologists from the University of Jaén Have discovered a giant mosaic in the recently excavated El Altillo Roman Villa Complex
Mural shows earliest known record of salt being sold at a marketplace in the Maya region (Phys.org 22/03/21)
The first documented record of salt as an ancient Maya commodity at a marketplace is depicted in a mural painted more than 2,500 years ago at Calakmul, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico
Neanderthals Used Toothpicks, New Research Reveals (Heritage Daily 22/03/21)
Neanderthals from around 46,000 years ago used ‘toothpicks and oral hygiene’ an international team of scientists have found