A rock shelter known as Spirit Cave overlooks Nevada’s Lahontan Basin. A burial discovered there held a man whose mummified remains are the oldest known in the world. Genetic testing has established ...
According to an IFL Science report, a medieval shipwreck has been discovered in the strait between Denmark and Sweden by a ...
An array of luxurious artifacts was discovered in the tomb of Feng Sufu, a Northern Yan Dynasty (a.d. 407–436) general, near the city of Beipiao in northeastern China. These include (clockwise from ...
According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...
These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...
According to a report in The Guardian, more than 800 broken whetstones have been found in northern England on the banks of ...
The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically compared to its other sides, where the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were once located. Recent work there has shown that ...
Live Science reports that Catalina Morales and Francisco Garrido of Chile’s National Museum of Natural History examined the 1,100-year-old remains of a man unearthed in the Atacama Desert. At the time ...
ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds ...
Hunting with poison arrows has been pushed back to 60,000 years ago, according to a Live Science report. Sven Isaksson of Stockholm University and his colleagues detected traces of poison in residues ...
Excavations at the Israeli site of Tell es-Safi have revealed the ruins of the city of Gath, which was occupied by the Philistines during most of the Iron Age (ca. 1200–539 B.C.)(Courtesy Aren Maier, ...
The Semien Mountains in northern Ethiopia were for centuries home to Jews known as the Beta Israel. The community included a class of ascetic high priests, known as meloksewoch, who oversaw prayers, ...
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