In the fourth report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, conservator Spike Bucklow describes how far the simple egg has extended the richness and splendour of paintings.
Excavation of 19,000-year-old hunter-gatherer remains, including a vast camp site, is fuelling a reinterpretation of the greatest fundamental shift in human civilisation - the origins of agriculture.
The humanities have been quick to embrace the potential of computer technology but universities have been reluctant to accept digital projects as bona fide scholarship. Katy Barrett, a PhD student at Cambridge's Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, argues for a change in attitude.
University of Cambridge linguists have pieced together the curious evolving history of the word 'not' across the languages of Europe. In doing so, they suggest that overuse of words such as 'literally' may be a natural linguistic development.
Some of the earliest evidence of prehistoric architecture has been discovered in the Jordanian desert, providing archaeologists with a new perspective on how humans lived 20,000 years ago.
A new study of tropical forests will provide a 50,000-year perspective on how animal biodiversity has changed, explored through an archaeological investigation of animal bones.
National recommendations for using public money to build arts venues are only succeeding in enforcing a system that is already flawed, a new study concludes.
An online recreation of Charles Darwin's famous experiment on the expression of emotion is being launched at Cambridge University's Festival of Ideas tomorrow (22nd).
'Commonplace books' were scrapbooks into which people copied their favourite poems and collected together other items - and were used as the basis for an early version of social networking.
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