An announcement by Dr. James Tabor and filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici that they had discovered of the earliest Christian inscriptions and imagery at a tomb in the suburbs of Jerusalem raised controversy over their interpretations. Various scholars have responded with their critiques on this blog, and Dr. Tabor has also posted his rebuttal.
Scientists have sequenced Ötzi the iceman’s entire genome and have found some interesting surprises in his genes, and that he had Lyme disease.
Cave paintings in Malaga, Spain, could be the oldest yet found, between 43,500 and 42,300 years old – and the first to have been created by Neanderthals.
Architectural conservators in Virginia are peeling back layers of paint in what is thought to have been a Civil War hospital to reveal the signatures and drawings of the soldiers that passed through the building.
Archaeobotanists have been able to examine and analyse pills that were prepared by the physicians of ancient Greece and recovered from a ship that sank off of Italy in 130 BC.
A team of scholars and students will return to explore and investigate the site now thought to be the remains of the lost city of Helike, destroyed by an earthquake and sunk beneath an ancient lagoon.
New finds of animal mummies and human remains in Abydos are helping unravel the rituals that took place there.
Officials in Mexico are excavating in the hills east of Mexico City at a spot known as Amecameca, where they have uncovered a residential area predating the Aztec presence in the region.
A dozen mosaics from ancient Turkey recently received a new, dramatic home at Bowling Green State University but the professor looking into their history fears they may have been looted from Turkey.
The conclusions of a recent study now suggest that some central African rain forests disappeared 3,000 years ago due in part to humans and the introduction of farming to the region.
The results are in from China’s most recent national heritage census — the first in more than 20 years — and they’re not good. According to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), around 44,000 of China’s 766,722 registered heritage sites have completely disappeared.
The National Archives’ copy of England’s Magna Carta has been restored and reframed in a high-tech new case.
University of Oslo immunologist Erik Thorsby believes that his recent finds may show that Native Americans may have accompanied Polynesians from the coast of South America to Easter Island before the arrival of Europeans.
A new website from France’s Ministry of Culture and Communication takes visitors inside the Villa Loupian, in France’s Languedoc province.
New artifacts from the 1718 shipwreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, went on display for the public in February at the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort.
Watch this video on Cuneiform Tablets from the UCLA Library: