WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities issued the following news release: * * * An Update on NEH Funding Priorities and the Agency's Recent Implementation of Trump Administration Executive Orders Washington, DC (April 24, 2025) - In recent weeks the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has taken several internal operational steps to improve efficiency, eliminate offices that are not essential to fulfilling its statutory requirements, and to return to being a  more

BARCELONA, Spain, April 24 -- The Autonomous University of Barcelona issued the following news: * * * Women from the Bronze Age already carried heavy loads on their heads An interdisciplinary study led by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) reveals that women living in the region of Nubia (present-day Sudan) developed skeletal changes adapted to bearing heavy loads on their heads starting in the Bronze Age over 3500 years ago. The results, published in the Journal of Anthropological A  more

OLD ELVET, England, April 24 -- Durham University issued the following news: * * * Researchers uncover first skeletal evidence of gladiator bitten by lion in combat A groundbreaking study involving our Department of Archaeology has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The study conducted by an international team of archaeologists and osteologists centres on a skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York, UK. The site is  more