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Sometimes we say a lot of terms in archaeology that can be confusing. So here's a quick glossary video about features, cuts ...
Classical archaeologist Michael Guggenberger, who has published several studies on the objects, described them in a 2000 ...
Could the Smithsonian Institution be hiding the truth about giant human skeletons unearthed across ancient America? This ...
Every Monument Will Fall’, says Dan Hicks in his new book, but what comes next?
There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...
At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to ...
A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...
Widely regarded as one of the birthplaces of modern archaeological science, the DAI pioneered the transition from indiscriminate digging at archaeological sites to the systematic excavation and ...
The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...
The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...
In a groundbreaking discovery that upends prior understandings of ancient Scottish history, archaeologists have unearthed ...
A mosaic adorning the entrance to a fifth-century church in Turkey ’s ancient city of Olympus is both just the tip of the ...