Archaeology News

Nov 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologists, using new high-precision techniques, have come to the conclusion that first settlers arrived in Polynesia almost 2,900 years ago. This is a view on an island in Tonga (thekingdomoftonga.com) Polynesia was one of the last places on our planet to be settled by humans. In 2008, Prof David Burley of Simon Fraser University in Canada and his team claimed that Tonga was the first group of islands in the region to be settled by migrants –...

Nov 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed an ancient well dating to the Neolithic period some 8,500 years ago in the Jezreel...

Nov 8, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Small stone blades and other tools found in a cave near Mossel Bay in South Africa have provided proof that Stone Age humans invented the technology of...

Nov 2, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new analysis of the Terracotta Army, a famous collection of clay sculptures depicting the army of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 –...

Oct 12, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) claim that they have found the accurate spot in Rome where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death...

Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

During excavations of the royal Maya city of El Perú-Waka’ in northwestern Petén, Guatemala, an international team of archaeologists has discovered...

Oct 2, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologists excavating the mammoth hunting site of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, have discovered what they say is the oldest ivory workshop...

Sep 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A German-Austrian team of scientists has discovered that an ancient Buddhist statue found by a German expedition to Tibet in 1938 is carved from an ataxite,...

Sep 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a treasure of impressive prehistoric artifacts at the Ein Zippori site. Stone Age...

Sep 21, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An Italian-Aussie team of archaeologists has unearthed new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing...

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study of fire-damaged artifacts found at the Molí del Salt site in Spain has revealed that hunter-gatherer humans of the Upper Paleolithic Age recycled...

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has tried to answer the question: did a massive comet explode over Canada...

Sep 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists at the University of Tübingen suggest that eight extremely well-preserved wooden throwing spears found more than a decade ago in Germany...

Sep 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered what they believe is the largest Roman mosaic ever found in southern Turkey. This...

Sep 14, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An archaeological team from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz has discovered the precise location of the oldest Roman military fortification known...

Sep 7, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

European archaeologists using geophysical methods have mapped an ancient Roman town, which disappeared after its abandonment 1,500 years ago and now lies...

Sep 7, 2012 by News Staff

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a large rock-hewn water reservoir dating back to the First Temple period in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden...

Sep 3, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed 9,500-year-old figurines of a ram and a wild bovine at the Tel Moza archaeological site,...

Aug 22, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s flagship R/V Falkor has discovered the S.S. Terra Nova, a whaler, sealer and polar exploration...

Aug 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study by Tel Aviv University scientists shows that the transition from hunting to agricultural society during the Neolithic age parallels development...