Archaeology News

A team of archaeologists from the University of Bonn, Germany, has discovered a tomb of a young prince at the ancient Mayan city of Uxul. A cup from the...

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the first evidence of ceramic figurative art in late Upper Paleolithic Europe – from about...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered what they believe is a 2,300-year-old harbor of the ancient city of Akko. A member of the Israel Antiquities Authority...

Archaeologists led by the University of Cincinnati have revealed new details about sustainable water and land management among the ancient Maya, including...

Archaeologists excavating in Oregon’s Paisley Caves have found evidence that Western Stemmed projectile points – darts or thrusting spearheads...

A team of Israeli archaeologists has unearthed one of the largest hoards of gold coins ever found in the country. Gold coins and a pottery vessel found...

British archaeologists and engineers have collaborated to examine buried Roman coins using the latest X-ray imaging technology. Computer rendered image...

Archaeologist Dr Robert Mason of the Royal Ontario Museum has recently announced the discovery of mysterious rock formations near the Syrian monastery...

Archaeologists using uranium-series dating technique have found that a reindeer engraved on the wall of a cave in South Wales dates from about 14,505 years...

Australian archaeologists have transformed the wreck of a 16 meter colonial ship – the Clarence – into a buried ‘time capsule’. Divers...

Chinese archaeologists have recently found fragments of pottery in Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province in China, that date back about 20,000 years. One...

Librarians at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, have discovered a previously unknown variant of the famous map of the world printed...

An international team of archaeologists has discovered a 1,300 year-old Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called “end...

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman period at the archaeological site of Huqoq...

Spanish archaeologists have unearthed the most ancient Neolithic bow found to date in Europe at the lake site of La Draga. The bow discovered at the Neolithic...

After 10 years of archaeological investigations, researchers from the Stonehenge Riverside Project (SRP) have concluded that Stonehenge was built as a...

A Norwegian-Syrian team of archaeologists has solved one of the great puzzles of the Roman Empire: why was the vibrant city of Palmyra located in the middle...

An international team of researchers has discovered the first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk...

The practice of cave art in Europe began up to 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new uranium-series dating study has revealed. The study...