A new genetic study of dogs suggests that they were first domesticated in Africa, and not East Asia, as had been thought. A field school at a self-sufficient medieval monastery in County Meath, Ireland, unearthed a deep defensive ditch and a thirteenth-century foundation. Waste near the foundation included animal bones and oyster shells, leading investigators […]

What could be the ancient Indian Ocean trade hub of Muziris has been unearthed at Pattanam, in southwestern India. Archaeologists have found a 2,000-year-old brick wharf; a wooden canoe; pottery from Italy, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; spices; and rice. Debbie Argue, a PhD student from the Australian National University, compared the bone fragments of the “hobbits,” […]