Archaeological breakthroughs, forgotten civilizations, and the enduring mysteries buried beneath our feet.
While preparing artifacts for their \”Made in Ancient Egypt\” exhibition, curators at Cambridge\’s Fitzwilliam Museum stumbled upon something achingly personal — a…
While preparing artifacts for their \”Made in Ancient Egypt\” exhibition, curators at Cambridge\’s Fitzwilliam Museum stumbled upon something achingly personal — a…
Read More →An archaeological team surveying the cliff faces and cave systems of the Judean Desert has announced a genuinely unexpected find — a…
Read More →Sustained excavations at the Tower of London — one of England\’s most symbolically charged historical landmarks — have produced a cascade of…
Read More →A landmark study published in Nature has announced that the oldest confirmed human-crafted bone tools date to an astonishing 1.5 million years…
Read More →In one of this year\’s more unexpected scientific revelations, a research team publishing in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has…
Read More →Egypt\’s most recognizable archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, has announced that a previously undetected void discovered within the Great Pyramid at Giza will be…
Read More →During an urban redevelopment project in Vienna\’s Simmering district, excavators struck something no one anticipated — a mass burial pit containing the…
Read More →One of archaeology\’s most tantalizing cold cases may finally be warming up. A joint expedition led by Egyptian archaeologist Kathleen Martinez and…
Read More →After centuries of scholarly curiosity but virtually no digging, the ancient city of Colossae in western Turkey has finally received its first…
Read More →In the rugged terrain of southern Dagestan, Russia, archaeologists have identified one of this year\’s most consequential prehistoric finds — a Copper…
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