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Skeleton found at shipwreck site is a reminder of a brutal massacre off the...
On June 4th 1629, a contrived dispute in order to instigate a mutiny on the Duch East India Company vessel, the Batavia, culminated in the deaths of over more than 120 people. The bodies of the dead...
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Could Iron Age settlement be the biblical town of Libnah from the Book of...
Excavations at Tel Burna, an Iron Age settlement in the Shephelah region of modern-day south-central Israel, have revealed artifacts and fortifications dating back to the seventh and eighth centuries....
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1,000-year-old Buddhist temple found in Bangladesh with links to venerated...
The remains of an estimated 1,000-year-old temple and city have been found in Munshiganj District’s Bikrampur, one of the oldest archaeological sites in Bangladesh.According to The Daily Star, an...
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Massive Earthen Ramparts in South Korea Believed to Be Hiding an Ancient Palace
Archaeologists in South Korea believe they have unearthed evidence of a 6th century palace of Ara Gaya, an ancient city-state kingdom, in the modern town of Haman in the Gyeongsang Province of South...
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500 ancient artifacts uncovered at the remarkable Bhamala Archaeological...
The Bhamala Buddhist Archaeological Complex in Pakistan has revealed a wealth of history and treasure dating back 2,000 years. Excavations have uncovered more than 500 “terracotta artifacts, stucco...
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Necropolis of Warriors and Gods: The Ancient Statues of San Agustín, Colombia
The world’s largest necropolis, filled with gods, mythical animals, and heroes, rests in the southwestern Andes of ColombiaThe largest collection of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in...
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Ancient Inscriptions Decoded at the Spectacular Temple of the Mayan King Pakal
Hieroglyphic inscriptions on the tomb of an ancient Mayan King have been translated more than 60 years after archaeologists discovered the hidden burial crypt in the rainforests of Mexico.The glyphs...
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Can You Hear the Past? Acoustic Archaeology is Beginning to Explore this New...
Picture an archaeological site, what comes to mind? Sandstone walls, standing in the desert heat? Stonehenge, watching over a grassy field?Read moreSection: NewsGeneral
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The Ior Bock Saga: Is Everything We Know about History Wrong?
There are many disagreements among scholars regarding historical events and individuals, however there is a consensus that most historians follow - a mainstream view of world history. At the same time,...
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Shimao City Ruins: This Massive Prehistoric Site Rewrites Chinese History
It took almost two years of surveying, exploring, and excavating, but it was worth it for archaeologists in China – the long days and months helped them confirm the discovery of the largest prehistoric...
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Ancient Mall Found in Famous Theater City of Aspendos Shows Commerce and...
The ancient city of Aspendos was a major commercial center in Roman times. The recent excavations of a large shop complex with offices and storage facilities dating back some 2,000 years provide more...
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Constructing an Obelisk: How the True Rocks of Eternity were Made
Since Classical antiquity, the West has had a fascination with ancient Egypt. Even Roman tourists would regularly visit Egypt in droves and all but one of the Egyptian obelisks were removed at some...
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Intertwining Human Life and the Environment: Understanding Ancient Geometric...
The geometric earthworks of southwestern Amazonia have raised the interest within the scientific community as well as the media and the general public, and they have been explored recently by several...
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Grave of Medieval 'Infant Prince' Found in Arctic, One of 9 Newly-Discovered...
A young boy was laid to rest all alone with two iron knives, his feet trampling on reindeer bones, wearing an elaborate headdress decorated with iron rings. So far nine burials have been found, but...
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Recently Discovered 6 Million-Year-Old Hominin Footprints Have Just Been...
There has been a lot of interest in our discovery of nearly-6m-year-old footprints on Crete, first reported by the The Conversation – suggesting that human ancestors could have roamed Europe at the...
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Bones of the Child, Tools of the Shaman: Ritual and Cosmology at the Hopewell...
Near Trenton in Dade County, Georgia, is a place called Tunacunnhee, supposedly named after a Native American word meaning “Lookout Creek”. Located just a few hundred yards east of Lookout Creek is an...
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Chicanna: Enter the Maya House of the Serpent Mouth
A menacing serpent-like monster glares down at you as you cross the plaza of Chicanná in Mexico. While it is certainly an unnerving thought, you decide to step inside the gaping serpent’s mouth....
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Indiana Joan’s $1 Million Artifact Collection Has Got Her in a Spot of Bother
Ninety-five-year-old Joan Howard proudly showed off her collection of ancient artifacts to a local newspaper in Australia, not realizing that he story was to spark a worldwide controversy. Now...
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The Qurna Eviction: Separating the Living from the Dead in Egypt
Built atop the 3,000-year-old Tombs of the Nobles, Qurna, a village located on the West Bank of the Nile, is one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, but it is also one of the most...
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Game of Toes in Amarna: Missing Body Parts and Funerary Practices of King and...
Pharaoh Akhenaten was the subject of great controversy when he lived; and this did not cease after he died. If anything, his memory has both troubled and impressed people down to this day. Be it his...
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