Who kissed first? Archaeology has an answer
A commentary recently published in the journal Science pushed back the earliest documentation of kissing by 1,000 years and upended the hypothesis...
Extreme diets Cannibalism, or clickbait for paleoanthropology
Everybody’s quick to see a cannibal. The Romans thought the ancient Britons feasted on human flesh, and the British thought the same about the Irish....
Uncut gems: Ancient Romans dropped their bling down the drain
Historically, two kinds of engraved gems were worn mounted on finger rings: intaglios, which have designs cut as a depression into the surface of the...
Hidden in 54 corpses, a revelation about ancient Greece
The victory was widely seen as a defining event for Greek identity. But the new study, an analysis of degraded DNA from 54 corpses found in Himera’s...
A Mayan civilisation that punched above its weight
For reasons that are still unclear, Sak Tz’i’ and hundreds of other settlements were abandoned and entire regions were left deserted during the ninth...