Archaeology

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered the most complete section yet of the ancient Hasmonean wall, a significant find from the era when the story of Hanukkah to...

The Guardian reports that planned construction of sections of the U.S.–Mexico border wall under President Trump could damage or destroy ancient Indigenous rock art s...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on March 23 that archaeologists uncovered a 5th-century Christian monastic complex in the Qallaya area of Behei...

Researchers have reexamined an ancient silver cup, known as the Ain Samiya goblet, discovered in the West Bank in 1970 and dating back to the Intermediate Bronze Age...

Over roughly the last century — and especially during Cambodia's decades of war, genocide and instability from the 1970s through the 1990s — thousands of statues and...

Archaeologists working in York, England (ancient Eboracum) analyzed textiles and remains from two infant burials dated to the late third or early fourth century A.D....

University of Waterloo researchers performed DNA analysis on skeletal remains recovered from sites associated with the 1845 Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arcti...

An 8-year-old boy, Dor Wolynitz of Rehovot, Israel, found a small 6x6 cm stone fragment while visiting the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert during a family weekend o...

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin (Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner) identified a 9th-century manuscript held in Rome's National Central Library that contai...

Excavations at Chagyrskaya Cave in southwestern Siberia recovered a Neanderthal adult molar dated to about 59,000 years ago that shows a deep hole occupying the pulp...

Researchers used climate reconstructions for sub-Saharan Africa covering the last 74,000 years to model historical habitat suitability for Anopheles mosquitoes and t...

In January 2025 the Cotofenesti helmet (a 2,500-year-old Dacian gold helmet) and three gold bracelets were stolen in a raid on the Drents Museum in the Netherlands w...