Archaeology News

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 seal, dating back to the first century CE or the late Second Temple period, was discovered at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount in the soil layer above the Herodian road, which was the main road of Jerusalem at that time. Clay seal of the Second Temple era (Vladimir Naykhin) This intriguing...

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...

Sep 10, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers discovered 8.500-year-old fingerprints in Yeşilova Höyüğü site, Turkey, according to the Hürriyet. “We have discovered fingerprints...

Aug 30, 2011 by James Freeman

In the course of the ongoing archeological excavations at the Yenikapı Marmaray construction site, Turkey, the world’s best preserved shipwreck, a merchant...

Aug 17, 2011 by James Freeman

Songo Mnara, once a thriving city off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa, has been empty and abandoned for many more centuries than it flourished. A...

Aug 12, 2011 by James Freeman

The archeological excavations in Salme, soon to be completed, have yielded evidence that the ship that had been buried with 35 warriors and nobles had...