Farming lifestyle in northwestern Africa was ignited by oversea-migrant
A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from Morocco in northwest Africa revealed that food production was introduced by Neolithic European and Levantine migrants and then adopted by local groups.
Iron Age settlement and rare Bronze Age artefact uncovered
A Middle Iron Age settlement and an important Early Bronze Age cremation burial of a child, containing an eagle-bone pin, have been unearthed during excavations by Cotswold Archaeology experts in Oxfordshire.
Results of Nasca research utilizing deep learning technology
The paper reveals the detailed deep learning methodology used for surveying the distribution of geoglyphs based on vast amounts of aerial photographs.
Thomas Cromwell book on display in castle
In a discovery branded the most exciting Thomas Cromwell finding ‘in a generation’, historians at Hever Castle believe that Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, and Thomas Cromwell all owned a copy of the same prayer book.
Team discovers 12,000-year-old flutes made from bird bones
Found in northern Israel, they are the first prehistoric sound instruments identified from the Near East – and the oldest imitating a bird call from any ancient civilization.
The Pharaoh’s New Face
A novel 3D digital facial approximation for Pharaoh Tutankhamun has been proposed by a team led by Cicero Moraes and including Egyptologist Michael Habicht.
New Dino, ‘Iani,’ was face of a changing planet
The specimen, named Iani smithi after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of change, was an early ornithopod.
Hundreds of prehistoric engravings found in the Prades Mountains
The set is made up of more than 250 prehistoric engravings located at the so-called Roca de les Ferradures in the ancient village of Cogullons, in the municipality of Montblanc.
Evidence of intentional burial, cave engravings by early human ancestor
Homo naledi, an early human ancestor, intentionally buried their dead and made crosshatch engravings in the cave walls nearby.
4,300-year-old copper ingots discovered in Oman
They were searching for charcoal – and found copper ingots: During a routine excavation in Oman, Irini Biezeveld and Jonas Kluge experienced how surprising archaeology can be.
3D scans shed new light on mysterious Roman burial practice
Archaeologists in York have used 3D scans to study the Roman burial practice of pouring liquid gypsum over the bodies of adults and children laid to rest in coffins.
Examining societal resilience in the transition from the Bronze to Iron Age
A Cranfield University-led project excavating a fortress site in southern Georgia aims to uncover why communities in this area were more resilient than in some other parts of the world at the end of the Bronze Age.
Exhibition at the Benaki Museum: Hic sunt dracones
An exhibition focusing on historical and social context and the aesthetics of mapping.
Silver on the bracelets of Pharaoh Khufu’s mother came from Greece
Trade between Egypt and the Aegean might have been going stronger than expected during the Pyramid Age.
Uncovering a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
The barrows uncovered at Netherhampton Road had all been levelled by centuries of cultivation and so remain only as ditches.
Legio X Fretensis was stationed at Apsaros in Colchis
In the early 2nd century CE, soldiers from Legio X Fretensis, known for their bloody suppression of Jewish uprisings, were also stationed on the Black Sea.
4,000-year-old plague DNA found – the oldest cases to date in Britain
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis.
Archaeologists identify Moluccan boats on NT rock art drawings
Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia’s eastern islands in rock art paintings.
BRIDGES: The eternal cycle of Roman victory
Lecture by Cecilia Olovsdotter in the series Bridges, organised by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome.
Archaeological excavations at Agios Ioannis/Vretsia-Roudias, Cyprus
During the 2023 excavation season the team continued investigating the Epipalaeolithic site (Agios Ioannis/Vretsia-Roudias), on the southern part of the Roudias terrace, as well as at the Aceramic Neolithic site.
Unique archaeological find in Thorikos, Greece
Göttingen University research team discovers earliest Iron Age house in Athens and Attica.
New mummification workshops and tombs found in Saqqara
Two new mummification workshops, two tombs, and large groups of artifacts were unearthed during the latest excavation season of an Egyptian mission working in Saqqara for the sixth consecutive year. In detail, the Egyptian archaeological mission led by Dr. Mostafa
Lead tablets of Dodona in the ‘Memory of the World’ of Unesco
The Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina is very happy to announce the inscription of the lead tablets of Dodona in the "Memory of the World" of Unesco.
Early toilets reveal dysentery in Old Testament Jerusalem
Study of 2,500-year-old latrines from the biblical Kingdom of Judah shows the ancient faeces within contain Giardia – a parasite that can cause dysentery.