Archaeology News

Feb 6, 2012 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has unearthed the foundation of a large fortress on the Hill of Jonah in Ashdod. Remains of massive walls on the Hill of Jonah (Sa'ar Ganor / the Israel Antiquities Authority) In various traditions, the Hill of Jonah (Giv’at Yonah) is associated with the burial place of the prophet Jonah. According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, the team discovered remains of massive walls...

Jan 25, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of archaeologists led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has found a series of more than 7,500-year-old fish seines...

Jan 16, 2012 by News Staff

Syrian archaeologists have announced new discoveries found at an archaeological site near the coastal town of Jableh in Lattakia governorate, Syria. According...

Jan 12, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers has identified nicotine traces in a Mayan flask while examining ancient vessels from the Kislak Collection of the US Library of Congress...

Jan 10, 2012 by James Freeman

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old seal with the Temple Menorah during excavations near the city of Akko. According to the Israel...

Jan 8, 2012 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists has announced new discoveries unearthed at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Bosra, southern Syria. Roman bathhouses...

Dec 29, 2011 by Sergio Prostak

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a mouthpiece of a pipe bearing a poetic inscription, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. Pipe mouthpiece...

Dec 28, 2011 by James Freeman

A team of archaeologists led by Álvaro Arrizabalaga of the University of the Basque Country has unearthed a pendant, which they believe to be 25,000 years...

Dec 26, 2011 by Sergio Prostak

Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient seal, which provides unique evidence of Jewish activity on the Temple Mount during the Second Temple era. The...

Dec 23, 2011 by James Freeman

Syrian archaeologists have unearthed an early Christian church and a cemetery at the site of Tal Hasaka, northeastern Syria, according to the Syrian Arab...

Dec 23, 2011 by News Staff

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient bathhouse dating back to the Byzantine era. The newly discovered Byzantine bathhouse in Judea...

Dec 15, 2011 by James Freeman

This week a team of archaeologists began to explore an area near the city of Erzin in the province of Hatay, southern Turkey, where the ancient town of...

Dec 2, 2011 by James Freeman

Archaeologists from the Mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt have discovered unknown Coptic city dating back to the fourth century CE,...

Nov 28, 2011 by James Freeman

An international team of archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham has discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment...

Nov 25, 2011 by News Staff

Professor Sue O’Connor from Australian National University has uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of deep sea fishing at a site in East Timor. The...

Nov 23, 2011 by James Freeman

The study of the late Middle Pleistocene archaic human cranium found in Maba, China, brings new evidence of interhuman aggression occurred 129,000 years...

Nov 22, 2011 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the United Kingdom discovered graffiti by British punk band Sex Pistols on the walls of the flat the band rented in London in the...

Nov 20, 2011 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by University of Colorado has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small,...

Nov 9, 2011 by News Staff

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a lost civilisation of the Sahara, in one of the harshest parts of the African desert. Researchers from the...

Sep 23, 2011 by James Freeman

Archaeologists from the University of Southampton and the British School at Rome working at Portus have discovered a massive building at the maritime port...