For decades, archaeologists have painted a picture of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) as the ultimate frontier of Polynesian civilization - a remote outpost that developed in complete isolation after its...
Several weeks back, I chatted with a CEO friend, and as I happened to be organizing a trip to see the ancient Armageddon site in Israel, naturally enough, that gave me the idea to write this piece…...
A stunning new archaeological discovery at Gordion, the ancient capital of the Phrygian Kingdom in central Turkey, may rewrite what we know about the funerary traditions of King Midas's dynasty. A...
Archaeologists in England have uncovered a beautifully preserved Roman well in Norfolk, offering an exciting representation of developments during Roman occupation. Lined with intricately woven...
Justin Stebbing /The Conversation In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun. When asked if he could see anything, he replied...
In a breakthrough that redefines our understanding of early Egyptian population history, scientists have sequenced the first complete ancient genome from Egypt, revealing that a man buried over 4,500...
In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of Neanderthal intelligence and survival strategies, researchers have unearthed the earliest known evidence of large-scale bone grease rendering-a...
In an astonishing case of cultural heritage misuse, a 3,000-year-old Phrygian rock-cut tomb in the village of Ayazini, Türkiye, has been illegally transformed into a café-restaurant. The sacred...
For centuries, garum's pungent, briny charm haunted the written word of imperial cooks and self-righteous philosophers only. But all that has changed, thanks to a group of archaeologists, geneticists...
More than two millennia after it guided sailors into the bustling harbor of Alexandria, the legendary Lighthouse or Pharos of Alexandria, the ancient world's most famous beacon, has partially emerged...
The character know to mythology as Queen Scotia, or in her own country, Queen Meritaten, is perhaps most famously linked to her half-brother Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who is probably the most famous...
Under the quaint Provençal village of Arles, the skeleton of a lost empire in stone, lime, and lead has been unboxed through geological archaeology. Researchers and scientists working on the project...
Thomas J. Derrick /The Conversation The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields and armor – when people imagine...
Below the sun-faded football pitches and well-trodden dog-walking trails of Cardiff's Trelai Park, archaeologists and volunteers together, have found more three Bronze Age cremation burials and the...
In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad , LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the...
A groundbreaking genetic study has overturned long-held assumptions about the history of leprosy in the Americas. Researchers have reconstructed the ancient genomes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis , a...
In a novel discovery, archaeologists in South Moravia, Czechia, have unearthed a 1,800-year-old bronze fragment of a Roman wrist purse - a utilitarian and tactical piece of military gear that offers...
By Heidi Hausse & Peden Jones /The Conversation To think about an artificial limb is to think about a person. It’s an object of touch and motion made to be used, one that attaches to the body and...
In the shadowed depths of Margaux Cave in Belgium's Meuse Valley, archaeologists in the late 1980s uncovered the scattered remains of at least nine women who had lived during the Mesolithic period,...
Have you stood in front of an ancient monument and experienced a sense of wonder, as though the building itself was whispering secrets of the cosmos? From Egypt's towering pyramids to Europe's...
A newly revealed private collection of ancient Egyptian hard-stone vessels has ignited intense debate among archaeologists, engineers, and alternative historians alike. The collection, gathered over...
In the floodplain of Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, sun-baked and desolate, archaeologists have uncovered a city once built under the watchful eye of the cobra goddess, Wadjet. Underneath a mound at...
Strong maternal lines recovered from ancient DNA samples at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük , along with archaeological evidence of female-centered practice, points to a socio-cultural practice of...
For aeons, Brittany 's stone arrangement at Carnac has provided an important window into Europe's prehistory, vying with the Stonehenge and Malta's temples for imagination. Like its counterparts, its...
