Archaeology News

Aug 13, 2012 by News Staff

Archaeologists of the Tel Aviv University have unearthed a seal, measuring about a half-inch in diameter, which depicts a human figure next to a lion at the archaeological site of Beth Shemesh, located between the Biblical cities of Zorah and Eshtaol. This is the ‘Samson seal’ found at Beth Shemesh, Israel (Raz Lederman / Tel Beth Shemesh Excavations) The scene engraved on the seal, the time period, and the location of the discovery all...

Aug 10, 2012 by News Staff

Zooarchaeologists at the University of Florida have found that the wild turkey was domesticated by the ancient Maya more than 1,000 years earlier than...

Aug 7, 2012 by News Staff

Archaeologists have discovered that people living 700 to 900 years ago in Cahokia, a massive pre-Columbian settlement near the confluence of the Missouri...

Jul 30, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has unearthed a beautiful and colossal human sculpture at the Tayinat Archaeological Project excavation site in...

Jul 30, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Jul 26, 2012 by News Staff

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

Jul 23, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Jul 17, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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

Jul 13, 2012 by News Staff

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

Jul 11, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Jul 11, 2012 by News Staff

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

Jul 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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

Jul 9, 2012 by News Staff

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...

Jul 9, 2012 by News Staff

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

Jul 6, 2012 by News Staff

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

Jul 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Jul 2, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Jul 2, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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

Jun 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Jun 25, 2012 by News Staff

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