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An ancient human tooth belonging to a child and stunning figurines were recently uncovered at the Acropolis of Amphipolis.

Scientific Reports - Parasites provide evidence for fish consumption among Iron Age Siberian pastoralists

東京大は17日、アイヌ民族など国内外の先住民族の遺骨を研究目的で収集・保管し、先住民族の尊厳を傷つけたとして、謝罪する文章をホームページに掲載した。　東大は今年7月、担当職員がアイヌ民族の団体に口頭…

More than 30 sunken huts at Karahantepe reveal Neolithic daily life, with hearths, storage areas and standing stones clustered around a central public building

Archaeological excavations at the Tigem Castle in the eastern province of Ardahan’s Göle district have unveiled new findings that shed light on the traces of the Iron Age in the region.

Despite continuous investigation, reasons for both the abandonment of Roman Britain around 410 CE, and the separate collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE remain unclear. Here, we use tree ring-based climate reconstructions and written documentary sources to show that a sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 CE not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, but also played a role in the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a catastrophic military defeat for Roman Britain in 367 CE. In line with contemporary reports from the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, this pivotal event in pre-modern history coincided with anomalous coin hoarding, and a gradual depopulation of Roman villas and towns. Expanding our climate-conflict analysis from Roman Britain as a case study to the entire Roman Empire and the period 350–476 CE reveals clear linkages between years in which battles occurred and preceding warm and dry summers. Based on these findings, we develop a mechanistic model to explain the vulnerability of agrarian societies to climate variability, whereby prolonged droughts cause harvest failures and food shortages (dependant on societal resilience) that lead to systematic pressure, societal instability, and eventually outright conflict.

Drought and cold in northern China during the 2.8 ka cold event contributed to the collapse of the Western Zhou Dynasty and subsequent significant southward migration, according to analyses of stalagmite records from Northeast and Southeast China.

Nolan, Daniel. 2025. Zoroastrianism and contemporary philosophy (Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Zoroastrianism is a religion with a long history, but it has been comparatively neglected by contemporary philosophers. This Element aims to bring aspects of its long intellectual history into conversation with contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. Section 1 provides an introduction to Zoroastrianism and its history, some of the important texts, and some contemporary philosophy engaged with Zoroastrian themes.

A 3,000-year-old public building dating to the Neo-Assyrian period has been unearthed in Soğmatar, the ancient sanctuary of the Moon God Sin

The Walled Oases Complex in north-west Arabia: evidence for a long-term settlement model in the desert - Volume 99 Issue 407

A tethered hunting and mobility landscape in the Andean highlands of the Western Valleys, northern Chile