Archaeology News

Jan 14, 2016 by News Staff

New archaeological evidence published online in the journal Nature has pushed back the accepted earliest human occupation of Sulawesi to more than 110,000 years ago. Finds from Talepu excavations: flakes (a-f, j-m), cores (g, h, i). All artifacts shown are silicified limestone. Scale bars -10 mm (a-i), 20 mm (j-m). Image credit: Gerrit D. van den Bergh et al. “Previously, it was thought that the first people to set foot on this remote island...

Jan 13, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A group of archaeologists from the University of Cambridge’s Archaeological Unit (CAU) has unearthed well-preserved Bronze Age dwellings during an excavation...

Jan 11, 2016 by News Staff

Recent excavations at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Knossos find that during the early Iron Age, the city was rich in imports and was...

Dec 23, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

Ancient Egyptians wrote Calendars of Lucky and Unlucky Days that assigned astronomically influenced prognoses for each day of the year. The best preserved...

Dec 8, 2015 by News Staff

Enormous standing stones at Stonehenge are of sarsen, a local sandstone, but the smaller ones, known as bluestones, came from two prehistoric quarries...

Dec 3, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

An engraved object recently found at the site of Moli del Salt in Spain and dated to the end of the Upper Paleolithic, about 13,800 years ago, may show...

Dec 2, 2015 by News Staff

Israeli archaeologists digging in the Ophel Archaeological Park, near the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, have discovered...

Nov 27, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed what they believe are the ruins of Acra – often called the Seleucid Acra...

Nov 25, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of Greek and German archaeologists has discovered a 300,000 to 600,000 year old elephant butchering site near the modern-day city of Megalopolis,...

Nov 23, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

Excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) at a site near the town of Netivot, southern Israel have revealed a Byzantine-era settlement dating...

Nov 18, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A beautiful Roman-era mosaic has been uncovered in the Neve Yerek neighborhood of Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv, by archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities...

Nov 12, 2015 by News Staff

Bee products were exploited continuously at least from the seventh millennium BC, according to a multinational team of scientists led by University of...

Nov 10, 2015 by News Staff

A University of Southampton-led of team of archaeologists has discovered almost two dozen shipwrecks around the Fourni archipelago, Greece. Archaeologists...

Nov 3, 2015 by News Staff

Archaeologists digging at the site of the ancient city of Doliche in Turkey have uncovered a stunning mosaic that would’ve been used as the floor of...

Oct 27, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational group of archaeologists has unearthed a 3,500-year-old tomb of Mycenaean warrior near the city of Pylos on the southwest coast of Greece...

Oct 23, 2015 by News Staff

A head of Medusa has been unearthed by a team of archaeologists digging at the site of Antiochia ad Cragum, an ancient Roman city on Turkey’s southern...

Oct 13, 2015 by News Staff

Archaeologists from Germany and the United Kingdom have revealed insights into cuisine choices and eating habits at Durrington Walls, a Neolithic settlement...

Oct 1, 2015 by News Staff

A multi-colored mosaic map that outlines the ancient Egyptian city of Chortaso (also known as Qartassa or Kartasa) has been uncovered in Kiryat Gat in...

Sep 30, 2015 by News Staff

A team of underwater archaeologists from the University of South Carolina has recovered three Civil War cannons – two Confederate Brooke rifle cannons...

Sep 28, 2015 by News Staff

Archaeologists excavating the famous 2,050-year-old Roman shipwreck off the remote island of Antikythera, Greece, have uncovered more than fifty new artifacts...