News Round Up

Origami (from ori meaning ‘folding’, and kami meaning ‘paper’) is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. It is believed that paper was first invented in China around the second century AD however many people believe that paper is even older than…

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—According to a report in The Guardian, trash dumped outside the northern wall of the city of Pompeii was recycled and reused. Researcher Allison Emmerson of Tulane University said it had been previously thought that the mounds…

RENO, NEVADA—Sexual division of labor may not have been strictly enforced in hunter-gatherer societies, according to a Science News report. Forensic anthropologist Marin Pilloud of the University of Nevada and her colleagues analyzed information…

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA—The Siberian Times reports that Vyacheslav Molodin, Dmitry Cheremisin, and Lidia Zotkina of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Jean-Michel Geneste of the University of Bordeaux; and Catherine Cretin of France’s National Museum of…

QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO—According to a Mexico News Daily report, researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have found traces of a Maya village dating to A.D. 1200 near the Caribbean coast in the eastern Yucatán…

The British Museum has pushed through a major revamp of its online collection with masses of imagery released for re-use on a non commercial license A new and improved version of The British Museum Collection Online has been unveiled earlier than…

LUXOR, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a wood coffin containing a mummy, a small coffin made of mud, and funerary equipment dating to the 17th Dynasty (ca. 1635–1550 B.C.) were found in a mudbrick chapel in the Dra Abul Naga necropolis, which is…

MÉRIDA, SPAIN—According to an El País report, archaeologists Javier Fernández of the Caraca-Driebes Archaeological Team and Emilio Gamo of the National Museum of Roman Art, along with geologists from the Spanish Geological and Mining Institute,…

BURGAS, BULGARIA—Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that disc-shaped copper ingots have been recovered from a Late Bronze Age shipwreck located near the Maslen Nos cape on southeastern Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. Archaeologist Miroslav Klasnakov said…

As we see history written before our eyes I can’t help but wonder how these events will be preserved in centuries to come. What facts and inaccuracies will future historians read about the events of 2020, and how will artists, writers and thinkers…

Ireland is undoubtedly full of history – a fact made abundantly clear in Turtle Bunbury’s new book, which sets out to explore some of the less well-known aspects of Ireland’s past through a series of fascinating and engaging tales. The post Review…

This is a book you will want in your pocket if you are going for a stroll in East Anglia. Through his writing, Edward Couzens-Lake – a passionate explorer of Norwich – accompanies the reader to 45 sites, each of which is given a concise historical…

WARSAW, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that researchers led by Michela Gaudiello of the University of Warsaw investigated the site of a medieval Christian church on a hilltop in northeastern Ethiopia. The church was located in the town of Debre…

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, a team of scientists from Aarhus University, deCODE Genetics, and the Max Planck Society looked for fragments of Neanderthal DNA in the…

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the Florida Museum of National History, a team of archaeologists from the University of Florida and the University of Georgia have discovered traces of Fort San Antón de Carlos, a Jesuit…

While their current exhibition exploring the creative role of the muse is in lock down, Dr Lucy Walker, Curator at Britten Pears Arts, talks about the relationship of Benjamin Britten and his life partner Peter Pears ‘Music from my fourth year began…

Matthew Payne, Keeper of Muniments at Westminster Abbey, on a fascinating illuminated personal prayer book that belonged to the grandmother of Henry VIII This prayer book belonged to Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443 – 1509) who was the mother of Henry…

Matthew Payne, Keeper of Muniments at Westminster Abbey, on a fascinating illuminated personal prayer book that belonged to the grandmother of Henry VIII This prayer book belonged to Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443 – 1509) who was the mother of Henry…

As the title of this book suggests, historic landscapes have the potential to improve the lives of those experiencing mental ill-health, by exploring the therapeutic relationship between people and ancient places. The post Review – Historic…

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, a 300,000-year-old wooden throwing stick has been identified among a collection of artifacts found in lakeside sediments in northwestern Germany by a team of…