Archaeology News

8,000 Year Old Evidence of Human Activity Found in Alps

Dr Walsh with colleagues at work excavating a Bronze Age site. Image credit: Kevin Walsh, the University of York.
Sep 27, 2013 by News Staff

Fourteen-year-long archaeological excavations in the Parc National des Écrins in the southern Alps have provided evidence of human activity from the Mesolithic to the Post-Medieval period. Dr Walsh with colleagues at work excavating a Bronze Age site. Image credit: Kevin Walsh, the University of York. Dr Kevin Walsh from the University of York with colleagues unearthed a series of stone animal enclosures and human dwellings considered some of most...

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Aboriginal rock art at Nourlangie, Australia. Image credit: Thomas Schoch /CC BY-SA 2.5.

Research Examines How Aboriginal Australians Coped with Climate Change around 20,000 Years Ago

Sep 25, 2013 by News Staff

A new study, reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explores behavior of Aboriginal Australians during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM for short). Aboriginal...

Digging underway at the Roman theater, Interamna Lirenas. Image credit: N. Sodeberg.

Roman Theater Unearthed at Interamna Lirenas

Sep 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have unearthed remains of a theater at the archaeological site of the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, founded in the late 4th century BC. Digging...

A general view of part of the survey area, looking southwest, showing the mountains bounding the Ginosar valley. Image credit: Dr Ken Dark / © The Palestine Exploration Fund / Maney Publishing, www.maneypublishing.com.

Dalmanutha: Archaeologists May Have Found Biblical Town

Sep 18, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Archaeologists led by Dr Ken Dark from the University of Reading’s Research Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, UK, have discovered what...

This image shows the archaeological site at Jerusalem's Mt. Zion. The site reveals many layers of the city's cultural history, including a first-century mansion. Image credit: Shimon Gibson.

Ruins of Early Roman Period Mansion Unearthed at Mount Zion

Sep 18, 2013 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the United States and Israel have discovered well-preserved lower levels of what they believe is an early Roman period mansion, possibly...

Shell specimens from Ksar Akil (Douka K et al).

Early Modern Humans Arrived in Near East 42,000 Years Ago

Sep 17, 2013 by News Staff

New radiocarbon dating on seashell beads found at the Paleolithic site of Ksar Akil in Lebanon indicates that the earliest fully modern humans arrived...

Dr Eilat Mazar displays a gold medallion found at the foot of Temple Mount. Image credit: Ouria Tadmor.

Ophel Treasure: Gold Artifacts, Coins Unearthed near Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Sep 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Israeli archaeologists have made what they say is a ‘breathtaking, once-in-a-lifetime discovery.’ They have unearthed gold and silver jewelry,...

Faience vessel fragment inscribed with the name of the pharaoh Aha, the first king of ancient Egypt's first dynasty. Image credit: Captmondo / CC-BY-SA-2.5.

Scientists Rewrite Timeline of Ancient Egypt’s First Dynasty

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

British archaeologists led by Dr Michael Dee from the University of Oxford have been able for the first time to set a robust timeline for the first eight...

Scientist Finds Manuscript with First English Recipes for Iced Chocolate Desserts

Sep 4, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Kate Loveman from the University of Leicester, UK, has uncovered the first English recipes for chilled chocolate treats, collected by the Earl of Sandwich...

King Solomon's Pillars in Timna Valley, Israel. Image credit: Little Savage.

Copper Mines in Timna Valley Dated to Time of King Solomon

Sep 4, 2013 by News Staff

According to archaeologists from the Tel Aviv University, copper mines in Timna Valley that were thought to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the...

Archaeologists Unearth 10,400-Year-Old Settlements in Bolivia

Aug 29, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from Switzerland, Australia, Germany and the United States has discovered remains of three hunter-gatherer settlements...

Around 4600 BC prehistoric Europeans acquired pigs whose coat might have looked similar to that of this modern-day Bentheimer pig (Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes).

Mesolithic Europeans Owned Domestic Pigs as Early as 6600 Years Ago

Aug 28, 2013 by News Staff

European hunter-gatherers began farming pigs around 4600 BC, according to an international team of researchers led by Dr Ben Krause-Kyora from the Christian-Albrechts...

Garlic mustard seeds (Paul Henjum).

Europeans Used Spices at least 7000 Years Ago, Study Shows

Aug 22, 2013 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from UK, Denmark, Germany and Spain have found evidence of the use of spices in European cuisine around 5,000 BC. Garlic mustard...

Three iron beads from Gerzeh, Egypt (© Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology / Gianluca Miniaci).

5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Artifacts Made from Meteoritic Iron, Confirms New Study

Aug 20, 2013 by News Staff

A new analysis of ancient Egyptian iron beads found in 1911 in Gerzeh, northern Egypt, has shown that they were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather...

Left: Mousterian of Acheulean Tradition hand axes, from top to bottom - cordiform hand axe from Le Moustier, France; triangular hand axe from St. Just en Chaussée, France; hand axe from Lynford, UK (Karen Ruebens). Right: Keilmessergruppen Tradition hand axes, from top to bottom - keilmesser from Sesselfesgrotte, Germany; keilmesser from Abri du Musée, France; faustkeilblatt from Königsaue, Germany (Karen Ruebens).

Stone Tools Point to Two Distinct Neanderthal Cultures

Aug 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study of 1,300 stone hand axes found at 80 Neanderthal sites in France, Germany, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands shows that two cultural traditions...

A 2,700-year-old ceramic bowl fragment found in Jerusalem (Clara Amit / Israel Antiquities Authority).

Ancient Hebrew Inscription Dating to 7th Century BC Unearthed in Jerusalem

Aug 19, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) have unearthed thousands of pottery fragments, clay lamps and figurines in the City of David in...

Hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts portray the proximate cause of the collapse of the late Bronze Age civilizations as the invasions of the Sea Peoples. But the new study says the Eastern Mediterranean cultures suffered wars, famine fuelled by climate change. The picture shows Sea Peoples in their ships during the battle with the Egyptians (Drawn by Boudier from a photograph by Beato).

Collapse of Late Bronze Age Civilizations Linked to Climate Change

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, climate change may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations...

Winnemucca Petroglyphs: Oldest Rock Art in North America Dates Back Up To 14,800 Years

Aug 14, 2013 by News Staff

A new study reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows Winnemucca petroglyphs, the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, date to at least...

Lissoir unearthed at the Neanderthal site of Abri Peyrony (Abri Peyrony and Pech-de-l’Azé I Projects)

Neanderthals May Have Invented Tools Still in Use Today, Say Archaeologists

Aug 13, 2013 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from Germany and the Netherlands has found evidence that Neanderthals were making leather-working bone tools before modern humans. Lissoir...

Byzantine gold coin found at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Apollonia-Arsuf (Pavel Shargo / Institute of Archaeology / Tel Aviv University)

400 Coins, Lamps, Other Artifacts Found in Byzantine Garbage Dump

Aug 7, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Tel Aviv University have unearthed about four hundred Byzantine coins, two hundred Samaritan...

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