Humanities face challenges due to financial reasons, lack of student interest, and a growing divide with the sciences.

Until now, the earliest known ivory artifacts came from the Upper Paleolithic, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. A few ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

For the last installment in the Institute for Research on Women's (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series, IRW and the Center for ...

One of the most enduring questions in anthropology is why Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, completely ...

The process of decolonialising life and thinking in Europe must start with education. The ever-present legacy of Belgian colonialism is a good place to start. In the opinion of many historians, the ...

It goes without saying that the study of any subject seeks to deepen understanding through careful analysis, employing all ...

Dr. Paul Warner disclosed his theory after a meeting with Egypt's Minister for Tourism and Antiquities, Ahmed Issa, on ...

A person of big ideas and an even bigger humanistic imagination," Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and ...

Dimas once again guided the archaeologists into the cave and down into the hidden room, where the experts noticed the stalagmites had been retouched in pre-Hispanic times, making them a more rounded ...

The Archaeological Institute of America bestows on Greek Professor Dimitirs Plantzos one of its highest honors.