Locals in the beachside town of Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka, have noticed the coastline crumble into the sea at an alarming rate ...

Our ‘Spotlight on’ series highlights how our researchers are leading their field and transforming lives. Robin Coningham, Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology and UNESCO Chair in Archaeological ...

Explore the diversity and characteristics of ancient Greek dialects and understand their impact on the evolution of the Greek ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a free pi day pie potluck, comedy against cancer, Mobius performance art called “Slay,” Ukrainian folk-rock, a St. Patrick’s fun ...

This new trail in Europe will extend more than 3000km, connecting more than 20 national parks and endless UNESCO listed sites ...

The osteotheca (with handles) found in Gela, Sicily, with the remains of a child from the 6th century B.C. Credit: Regione Siciliana This vessel, characterized by the presence of four handles and a ...

Empress Dowager Ling was not a warrior, but she embraced martial symbols of her own power that were available to women in Taghbach culture but not in Chinese culture. For example, she was an ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world. Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in ...

To study drought across Europe and Asia, Kate Marvel and colleagues turned ... in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report. Using tree ring measurements from 1000 ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...