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Archaeology

Human bones are laid out on a blue cloth. Behind them is a photo of them in the earth

Rare gems in skeleton’s teeth challenges thinking about Medieval women

A 1,000-year-old skeleton of a woman was discovered at a monastery cemetery shows that she painted with rare, expensive pigments — and she licked a brush frequently, leaving the traces of lapis lazuli in her dental plaque. The finding shows that women contributed more to painting and literature that previously thought.

A Salvadoran father carries his son tries as he tries to board a train with another immigrant and head to the Mexican-U.S. border, in Huehuetoca, near Mexico City.

MacArthur grant winner studies the things left behind at the US-Mexico border

Arts
“Underground astronauts” Marina Elliott and Becca Peixotto work inside the cave where fossils of H. naledi, a new species of human relative, were discovered. The find was announced by the University of the Witwatersrand, the National Geographic Society an

Her 4-foot-10 frame helped her discover a new human ancestor

Science
The head of a mummy from the Chinchorro culture, which is found in northern Chile.

As Chile’s climate changes, the world’s oldest mummies are turning moldy

Science
Isle of Wight coastal area

Scientists dig in to paleosoil to find out why some civilizations learned to farm earlier

Science
One of the artifacts found at the base of a pyramid at the archealogical site. It’s suggested it could be the effigy of a "were-jaguar," part of a still-buried ceremonial seat, or "metate."

Have archaeologists discovered the ‘Lost City of the Monkey God?’

Science

An expedition has returned from the jungles of Honduras with news of the discovery of a lost city from a mysterious culture. Could it be the “Lost City of the Monkey God,” a centuries-old Honduran legend?

900 de Maisonneuve West office building development project in downtown Montreal

A proposed Montreal high-rise may be located on an aboriginal burial ground

Business

A Montreal construction site has become an archaeological dig. A development company has halted construction on its 27-story office tower over concerns its being built atop aboriginal burial grounds.

A boy selling antiques in Old Aleppo, January 2015. Archaeological treasures, thousands of years old, are being openly looted and traded In Syria and neighboring nations.

Modern day ‘Monuments Men’ try to save antiquities from ISIS

Conflict

Western officials says the Islamic State movement is looting antiquities ‘on an industrial scale.’ But a group of graying academics is criss-crossing the battlefields of Syria trying to stop them.

Syrian art

America isn’t doing much to stop a booming trade in looted Syrian art

Conflict

Syrian art is being plundered by ISIS rebels and sold for profits to fund their war in Iraq and Syria. Often, that art is making its way to the US — and so far the US hasn’t passed any laws to try and staunch that flow.

Ukraine’s Asgarda martial arts program recasts Amazon warrior women

Conflict & Justice

Katerina Tarnovska ia trying to build on the legend of the Amazon — the mythical women warriors who cut off their left breasts so they could fire their bows and arrows better and who fought along side Alexander the Great. Tarnovska, who is a preschool teacher by day, has organized a series of camps to help Ukranian women learn Asgarda.