Virtual reality breathes new life into African fossils, art and artefacts
Bringing the past into a digital space creates so much more overt space for interpretation and different narratives.
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Newly discovered 6m-year-old Cretan footprints stolen – finder writes about how we must protect precious sites
Latest development in 'Crete feet' find serves as a reminder of the challenges facing dig sites.
Our controversial footprint discovery suggests human-like creatures may have roamed Crete nearly 6m years ago
A new study can't rule out the possibility that human ancestors lived on Crete at the same time as they evolved in Africa.
What teeth can reveal about the secret lives of our ancestors
Diet and disease leave characteristic marks on our teeth which can reman for millions of years.
Mythbusting Ancient Rome – did all roads actually lead there?
Today the phrase 'all roads leads to Rome' means that there's more than one way to reach the same goal. But in Ancient Rome, all roads really did lead to the eternal city, which was at the centre of a vast road network.
Mary Beard is right, Roman Britain was multi-ethnic – so why does this upset people so much?
A row about whether Roman Britain was ethnically diverse has turned nasty.
Soundscapes in the past: Adding a new dimension to our archaeological picture of ancient cultures
We tend to think of archaeological sites as dead silent – empty ruins left by past cultures. But this isn't how the people who lived in and used these sites would have experienced them.
What we’re finding as we excavate Halmyris, a frontier fort of the Roman Empire
Excavating the history of migration along the frontier of the Danube.
Here’s the three-pronged approach we’re using in our own research to tackle the reproducibility issue
A team of archaeologists strived to improve the reproducibility of their results, influencing their choices in the field, in the lab and during data analysis.
Chipped teeth suggests Homo naledi had a unique diet
Homo naledi seems to have enjoyed small, hard foods like nuts.
Why archaeological antiquities should not be sold on the open market, full stop
Sales of antiquities legally excavated are just as ethically problematic as those likely looted.
The forgotten history of Beijing’s first Forbidden City
Explore the hidden origins of one of China's most significant historic sites.
Gold Rush Victoria was as wasteful as we are today
What we buy has defined who we are since the Gold Rush. In the 1850s and 1860s, people communicated their social status by buying stuff - dinner sets, junk jewellery - and throwing their old things away.
Roman gladiators were war prisoners and criminals, not sporting heroes
Roman gladiators were unique and complex characters, and certainly not the sporting heroes they're depicted as in culture today.
Decorated snail shell in a cave in Iraq could be evidence of Paleolithic bling
The early human 'Cockney pearly kings and queens'.
When – and why – did people first start using money?
Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.
Modern humans evolved 100,000 years earlier than we thought – and not just in east Africa
A researcher tells the story of how he and his team discovered the oldest Homo Sapiens fossil bones to date in Morocco.
When it comes to disappearing ocean history, HMAS Perth is the tip of the iceberg
Archaeologists this week found that more than half of of HMAS Perth, a WWII wreck in Indonesia, has disappeared. It's now a race to protect the millions of other wrecks and sunken cities lying under the oceans.
Erasing history: why Islamic State is blowing up ancient artefacts
Islamic State has destroyed globally-significant sites in Iraq and Syria, but not as wanton acts of destruction. Instead, they are calculated political and religious attacks.
The truth about the Amazons – the real Wonder Women
Since the epics of the Homeric poets, there have been tales of the mysterious, war-like Amazon women. The myth is likely based on the 'strong, free' women of the nomadic Scythian tribe.
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