Archaeology News

Feb 10, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists led by Dr Paolo Gabrielli of Ohio State University has discovered evidence of air pollution within the Andean ice that predates the Industrial Revolution by more than two centuries. North dome of the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru. Image credit: Paolo Gabrielli / Ohio State University. In the 16th century, during its conquest of South America, the Spanish Empire forced countless Incas to work extracting silver from the mountaintop...

Jan 31, 2015 by News Staff

A unique 2,500-year-old wall relief showing an unidentified pharaoh and two deities, a rare depiction of obelisks being cut and loaded onto boats, and...

Jan 22, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Luc Doyon of the University of Montreal has unearthed a rare prehistoric bone tool at the Grotte du Bison in Burgundy. The...

Jan 12, 2015 by News Staff

In a new study that challenges a leading hypothesis on the demise of Easter Island population, scientists led by Prof Thegn Ladefoged of the University...

Jan 10, 2015 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Min Project have discovered an ancient reproduction of Osireion in Theban Necropolis, an area of the west bank of the Nile, opposite...

Dec 26, 2014 by News Staff

Six clay seals found at the archaeological site of Khirbet Summeily in Israel offer evidence that supports the existence of Biblical Kings David and Solomon,...

Dec 24, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists have found a Paleolithic stone flake in the ancient deposits of the Gediz River, revealing that human ancestors passed through the gateway...

Dec 23, 2014 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology has discovered a royal passageway to Herodium, an ancient...

Dec 16, 2014 by News Staff

A small stone artifact recovered from a Paleo-Eskimo site on Baffin Island is important evidence of a Viking presence in Arctic Canada around 1000 CE,...

Dec 15, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered the remains of an ancient farm house near the city of Rosh Ha-Ayin in central...

Dec 10, 2014 by News Staff

A hoard of Roman and Pictish hacked-up silver, coins and jewelry has been found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Archaeologist examines a crescent shaped brooch...

Dec 8, 2014 by News Staff

Swedish archaeologists Dr Andreas Viberg of Stockholm University and Dr Martin Rundkvist of the University of Umeå have found the remains of a major Viking...

Dec 4, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational group of scientists led by Prof Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University in the Netherlands has discovered the earliest known engraving on a...

Nov 28, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has unearthed three 2,200-year-old, well-preserved glass mosaics at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey. The...

Nov 21, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has discovered extensive archaeological evidence of Neolithic farming and human habitation at altitudes above 2,000...

Nov 6, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Climatic Change, the Neo-Assyrian Empire was forced into terminal decline by the combination of two factors...

Oct 28, 2014 by News Staff

Italian archaeologists and divers from a Florida-based group called Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) have recovered a wide range of artifacts from an...

Oct 24, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Peru, have discovered two ancient settlements in the Pucuncho Basin in the southern Peruvian...

Oct 22, 2014 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists led by Dr Mykhailo Videiko of the Kyiv Institute of Archaeology has discovered the remains of a 6,000-year-old temple at a Trypillian...

Oct 15, 2014 by News Staff

The bronze remains of a Celtic chariot dating to the 2nd or 3rd century BC have been unearthed at the Burrough Hill Iron Age hillfort, near Melton Mowbray...