Archaeology News

The Antikythera mechanism is a multi-component device recovered from a shipwreck close to the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901. It is believed to be...

A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be...

Using a novel technique called laser ablation U-series (LA-U-series), archaeologists have re-dated some of the earliest cave art in the Maros-Pangkep region...

Archaeologists have found a new hominin rib specimen in Baishiya Karst Cave, one of the only two places where Denisovans are known to have lived. Dated...

The Trypillia culture flourished in western/central Ukraine, Moldova and eastern Romania for over two millennia from the end of the Neolithic to the Early...

Eyed needles were a new technological innovation used to adorn clothing for social and cultural purposes, marking the major shift from clothes as protection...

The ancient ship and its cargo is estimated to be from the 13th century BCE, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered. The Canaanite amphorae...

Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is often used as an example of how overexploitation of limited resources resulted in a catastrophic population collapse. A vital...

The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus, also known as the Gallus Revolt, erupted during the Roman civil war of 351-354 CE and was the last Jewish...

Colored dyes were a significant commodity in the Mediterranean region during the Late Bronze Age. Berger et al. unearthed a purple-dye workshop in Area...

Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed a so-called sacrarium at Pompeii, an ancient Roman city frozen in time after the catastrophic eruption of Mount...

Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility. However, the timeline between their domestication and widespread integration as a means of transportation...

A 3,500-year-old suit of Mycenaean bronze armor from the Greek village of Dendra may have been used in battle, not just for ceremonial purposes as previously...

Around 12,440-12,550 years ago, hunter-gatherers returned regularly to Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile to hunt ancient elephant relatives called gomphotheres...

Archaeologists in Egypt have identified segments of a 64-km-long extinct branch of the river Nile, which they name the Ahramat Branch, running at the foothills...

The 4,000-year-old skeletal remains of a Scandinavian man were found in 1916 on the island of Hitra, Norway. The Hitra man was around 169 cm tall, fair-haired...

Because of persisting narratives of isolation, inaccessibility, and unattractiveness, the initial peopling of one of the eastern Mediterranean islands...

Archaeologists from Macquarie University and Polish Academy of Science’s Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Culture have discovered 16 new rock...

An international team of archaeologists with the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence has discovered a Late Neolithic settlement near the Tamiš River in the northernmost...