Archaeology

April Fools’ Day is not unique to Western cultures. People all over the world and all throughout history have celebrated the coming of Spring with festivals of deception and lightheartedness.

Despite being ransacked in the past, the tomb contained the remains of at least 15 people, a sarcophagus and a jasper amulet

Friends and colleagues who know that I illustrated Neil Shubin’s first book, Your Inner Fish, have been asking if I was involved in the three-part PBS series hosted by Shubin that will air next week on April 9th.

For decades anthropologists have debated when and how our ancestors became skilled hunters. Recent discoveries have yielded surprising new insights

Many of the early Pre-Raphaelite paintings may have paint made from dead Egyptians. Considered to be a highly variable pigment between raw umber (almost greenish brown) and burnt umber (a ruddier brown), Mummy Brown was a transparent brown good for mixing.

Roman emperors were often depicted as pharaohs while Egypt was part of the Roman empire

Archaeologists hope that a funding and conservation boost can halt wall collapses and other erosion occurring at the ancient city on Italy's Neopolitan coast

The humerus fossil was matched to another specimen found over 150 years earlier

The patterns on the insect's wings closely match those of nearby fossilized leaves from the same period

The skeletons of four kittens and two cats in a cemetery may push back the date of cat domestication in Egypt to 3600 B.C.

The bronze triggers of the disintegrated wooden bows were probably molded and made in small batches rather than by assembly line