Archaeology News

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...

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a spectacular 2000-year-old gold and silver hoard in the Qiryat Gat region. The 2000-year-old hoard from the Qiryat...

Tel Aviv University researchers have found that the ancient Egyptians developed unique system of volume measurement based on sphere units. A Phoenician...

A new study has suggested that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the Harappan civilization. Archaeological ruins of Mohenjo-daro:...

Oxford and Tübingen scientists have identified what they believe are the world’s oldest known musical instruments. Mammoth-, left, and bird-bone flutes...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a rare ancient artifact that provides the earliest evidence for the existence of the...

Tel Aviv University archaeologists have discovered a collection of gold and silver jewelry, dated from around 1100 B.C., hidden in a vessel at the archaeological...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 37 stone artifacts at three new localities near the Liuhuaishan, an important early Paleolithic site...

A team of scientists from the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm University has found large quantities of sulphur and iron compounds in marine archaeological...

A team of anthropologists has determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone found in a collapsed rock shelter in southern France constitutes...

Archaeologists working in Turkey have found the evidence for a previously unknown ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time...

Archaeologists excavating for the first time in the sprawling complex of Xultún, discovered nearly a century ago in Guatemala’s Petén region, have...

A team of Israeli archaeologists has announced the discovery of objects that for the first time shed light on how a cult was organized in Judah at the...