Scientists at the University of Melbourne, Australia, reconstructed the features of an Egyptian mummy of more than 2 thousand years using new techniques that employ computed tomography and 3D printing. The mummy of a woman who died around the age of 18 was named Meritamun (Beloved by Amon) by resear
It has long been assumed that proximity to resources determines settlement patterns, and that cities are generally founded near water and fertile farmland. But a new study challenges this idea, using the example of an ancient city in present-day southern Mexico. The researchers maintain that Monte
Strange ring-shaped objects found at a Bronze Age site represent a unique form of grain-based product, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE by researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Agricultural practices are well documented in the archaeological record, but the w
Genetic analyzes make it possible to reveal migratory phenomena and social customs that had hitherto gone unnoticed in traditional historiography. The populations that lived in Central Europe at the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age are thus much more mixed from an ethnic poin