cultural-heritage

On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.

Roman amphitheaters hosted far more than gladiator fights. Animal hunts, known as venationes, drew large crowds across the empire. A new study from Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) examines the laws and state systems behind these shows. The research focuses on two imperial constitutions from Late Antiquity, preserved in the Theodosian Code and later […]

Using technology that can see through solid jungle canopy, a team of researchers has uncovered nearly two miles of ancient roads near Machu Picchu, winding toward structures no one knew existed on a part of the mountain long assumed to be empty.

In Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Food. forthcomingHuman beings have created a remarkable diversity of cuisines. How did this come about, and what consequences does it have for our appreciation of food? Utilizing historical, anthropological, and philosophical approaches, the chapter argues that culinary diversity emerged through processes of social learning, innovation, and standardizati…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 03 September 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08919-w Disaster, diaspora, and the construction of post-Kobe subjectivity: a cultural trauma narrative study of Murakami Haruki’s after the quake

Excavations revealed dozens of copper and malachite objects, from raw materials to finished beads and other artifacts. The post A 9,000-Year-Old Mining Workshop Filled With Metal Artifacts Was Just Uncovered In Southeastern Turkey appeared first on All That's Interesting .

Using LiDAR, the team discovered 1.5 miles of pre-Columbian roads, but to protect the find, officials are keeping the specific location a secret.

Ancient Mellaria in southern Spain was known for mining, but nearby rivers also helped support daily life. A new study of 17 lead fishing weights points to small-scale river fishing as part of the local economy. The objects were found during excavations at the Mellaria site near Fuente Obejuna, Córdoba. Researchers studied their shape, metal […]

The feminist activist had a rich history with artists and the art world, including rooming with Barbara Nessim, mentoring Annie Leibovitz, and being refused at the door by Georgia O'Keeffe.

"The planning, the mission, vision and values of this organization have never changed," she said.

A small team of archaeologists has been undertaking research into the island of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides. Camping for a few days at a time over a number of years, they have carried out both survey and excavation work. Derek Alexander, Daniel Rhodes, Stuart Jeffrey, Tessa Poller, and Siân Jones describe the results of these efforts to date.

A 2,400-year-old timber structure found beside the Main River in Aschaffenburg, Germany, is giving archaeologists new evidence about Iron Age building skills and the importance of the nearby settlement. Workers found the oak timbers in March 2026 during construction at a stormwater overflow basin near the Willigis Bridge. Their age was unknown at first. Scientists […]

A new study uses Hasmonean history and evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls to address a decades-old mystery. For decades, researchers have debated whether the Qumran sect’s unusual 364-day calendar ever governed daily religious life or existed only as an idealized system. A Tel Aviv University study now proposes that both possibilities may be true [...]

Archaeologists have found 12 wallaby teeth with resin attached to their roots at Windmill Way, a rock shelter in Queensland, Australia. The unusual finds date to about 1,100 to 1,300 years ago and are the first such tooth ornaments found in a non-burial site in northeast Australia. The teeth came from the Late Holocene layer […]

Art history, or history in art, has never been my thing. That’s why I found visits to museums as a student, unless they focused on scientific accomplishments, bones and fossils,…

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - Vichama is the Inca god of death, vengeance, and fertility, and the son of Inti, the sun god. The name also refers to a significant archaeological site: the Caral city north of Lima, which flourished between 1800 and 1500 BCE. Archaeologists have uncovered 3,800-year-old artifacts there, revealing stories of struggle […]

Ever since watching the movie The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe, Jeb Smith has admired and been fascinated by feudal Japan and the samurai. The movie, based on various historical figures and events from 19th-century Japan, portrays the contrast between traditionalism and modernity. Here Jeb looks at the samurai in the context of the book The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori …

A god whose cult center burned around 1185 BCE bears a title that is today spoken daily on every continent. This paper asks what, exactly, survived, and answers with a structural claim: not a temple, not a priesthood, not a state, but an office, the custody of the Most High, transmitted across successive and mutually hostile custodians by a repeatable cycle of seven stations. The cycle is reconst…

Interest in historical hoaxes involving credible public figures has remained consistent among readers of popular history, particularly cases documented across a long enough timeline to trace both the deception and its eventual unravelling. The Cottingley Fairies photographs represent one of the most thoroughly documented such cases, spanning from their creation in 1917 to a confession that did no…