Heritage
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8.9KResearch reveals origins of the altarpieces
It was previously believed that altarpieces from the late Middle Ages were made in Germany. New research shows that several of them...
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24.8K10 Underground cave cities & settlements
Cave dwellings can be found across most of the world and served as sites for religious practice, protection or just habitation.
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6.8KThe Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe was a medieval kingdom of 150 tributaries that existed from 1220-1450 CE in modern day Zimbabwe.
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11.7KThe Kingdom of Aksum – Africa’s lost Empire
The Aksumite Empire was an ancient kingdom that existed in Ethiopia from 100 CE to 940 CE. Centred on the city of...
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7.1KNew research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia
A new study has discovered that horses were first domesticated by descendants of hunter-gatherer groups in Kazakhstan who left little direct trace...
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3.8KRome’s Flaminian Obelisk: an epic journey from divine Egyptian symbol to tourist attraction
The Flaminian Obelisk was carved at the height of Egypt’s New Kingdom, during the reign of Seti I (1290 to 1279 BCE), the father of Ramesses...
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2.9KLook Up London wins arts and culture blog of the year at UK Blog Awards 2018
Look Up London, London history blog and walking tour company wins national award celebrating excellence in content creation. In the UK Blog...
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5.0KPOW graffiti discovered on the walls of Sissinghurst Castle
Long lost graffiti carved into the walls by French prisoners of war over 250 years ago has been discovered at a National...
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12.0KHeritageDaily on iOS & Android
HeritageDaily, the online magazine and publisher has launched a dedicated app for iTunes and Google Play. HeritageDaily first published in 2011, since...
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3.7KEvidence for persistent forest reliance by indigenous peoples in historical Sri Lanka
Working closely with Wanniyalaeto (Vedda) elders in Sri Lanka during the repatriation of skeletal remains, a team of researchers have demonstrated that...
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5.6KWhat the oldest peace treaty in the world teaches us
According to archaeologists, the world's oldest peace treaty disproves the widespread notion that in antiquity, peace was not brought about by negotiations,...
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9.7KAnalysing the famous ‘mosaico de los amores’, one of the largest and best preserved Roman mosaic floors of the Iberian peninsula
An interdisciplinary research team is currently analysing the famous mosaic ‘mosaico de los amores’. This is one of the largest and best...
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4.9KNew Digital Research Tool For Classical Scholars
The Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP), a new digital tool for researching ancient literature, is now available.
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3.6K400-year-old documents reveal evidence of Japanese opium production and winemaking
Research from the Eisei Bunko Research Center of Kumamoto University reveals that Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce...
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9.4K13,000-year-old human footprints found off Canada’s Pacific coast
Human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast may be 13,000 years old, according to a study published by Duncan McLaren and colleagues...
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9.2KLinguistic analysis finds Dravidian language family is approximately 4,500 years old
The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India...
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4.4KFirst evidence of live-traded dogs for Maya ceremonies
Ashley Sharpe, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and colleagues combined clues from carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium...
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8.4KResearchers add 700 years to Malta’s history
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have discovered that the first people to inhabit Malta arrived 700 years earlier than history books indicate.
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