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Archaeology

AI and Stolen Art

Using AI to Identify Plundered Antiquities

May 27, 2025

Photo: A woman with gray, short hair smiling and looking off to the side. She is wearing a red turtleneck sweater with a black vest

Archaeology

What Ancient Pottery Can Teach Us About Everyday Lives in the Time of Jesus and Herod the Great

January 14, 2025

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

Undergraduate Research

For BU Undergrad, Meal Leftovers Aren’t Trash—They’re Glimpses into the Past

October 24, 2024

Photo: A picture of Andreana (Andree) Cunningham, a CAS assistant professor of archaeology, standing in front of bookshelves that feature books as well as small skull and human body statues.

Bioarchaeology

The Histories of Enslaved People Were Written by Slavers. A BU Researcher Is Working to Change That

August 13, 2024

Archaeology

Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Nile Valley Settlements Found in Forgotten Treasure

April 16, 2024

Photo: The view from the 4-seat floatplane of Kodiak Island, where The Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people have lived for over 7,500 years. A lush green island surrounded by water can be seen from a plane.

Archaeology

Archaeology Student Trevor Lamb Found Some of Alaska’s Oldest Woven Textiles on Kodiak Island

October 26, 2023

Image: A Modern wire frame mesh design vector illustration of the year "2022". Numbers are depicted with glowing neon blue low polygonal digits on dark blue background. .

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

John M. Marston sits and smiles at the camera in a blue collared shirt. There is a wooden desk and bookcase nearby.

Maya Archaeology

What Ancient Toilets Can Teach Us about Maya Life—and Tamales

June 5, 2022

A photo of Dragon Man's skull

Paleoanthropology

Is “Dragon Man” a Missing Link in Human Evolution?

July 9, 2021

Archaeologist John "Mac" Marston holds a vile of ancient seeds found at an archaeological dig.

Environmental Archaeology

What Can We Learn from an Ancient Pea?

October 7, 2019

Professor of Archaeology Catherine West holds a clamshell in Dutch Harbor middens where she studies ancient climate change adaptation in the Aleutian Islands.

Archaeology

Clamshells and Climate Change

November 14, 2017

Arctic Ground Squirrel

Archaeology

Arctic Squirrels: Invasive or Native Species?

February 22, 2017

James Pokines, assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine

Anthropology

Bone Detective

July 21, 2016

View of temples in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico

Archaeology

Lessons from Teotihuacan

August 24, 2015

Boston University BU, Farouk El-Baz

Archaeology

Farouk El-Baz Tapped by Egypt President

October 6, 2014

Farouk El-Baz Tapped by Egypt President