Τhe Buddha before he became a Buddha
In the ruins of a Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan, archaeologists have uncovered a stone statue that seems to depict the prince Siddhartha before he founded Buddhism.
Great Wall much longer than in previous survey
China's Great Wall, one of the country's signature relics, is 21,196.18 kilometers long, according to the latest survey results released by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
Ancient Greek tombs in Marseilles
Archaeologists excavating the old city port of Marseilles, known as the Lazaretto of Arenc, have stumbled upon what appears to be an ancient Greek necropolis dating from the fourth or fifth century BCE.
WikiLoot aims to use crowdsourcing
Man behind WikiLoot hopes crowdsourcing experiment will help to find some of the world's oldest and most valuable treasures.
Shakespeare’s first theatre unearthed
Theatre where Romeo and Juliet was first performed is rediscovered in Shoreditch centuries after it was dismantled.
Stone Age art gets animated
By about 30,000 years ago, Europeans were using cartoon-like techniques to give observers the impression that lions and other wild beasts were charging across cave walls.
Researchers X-raying Hasankeyf
A new season of excavations that make use of X-ray technology will begin this month in the southeastern province of Batman’s historic district of Hasankeyf.
The church, the religious artefacts and the monarch
Access to returned churches guaranteed, as Putin gives historic icon to convent that was in a museum
The seeds of inequality
Hereditary inequality began over 7,000 years ago in the early Neolithic era, with new evidence showing that farmers buried with tools had access to better land than those buried without.
German team leaves Troy
A team of German archaeologists, conducting excavations for nearly 25 years in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey’s northwest, are set to turn over their positions to U.S. archaeologists.
An old law for Ottoman coins
Thousands of gold and silver coins from the Ottoman period are being melted for use in the souvenir sector because there is a ban on the sale and collection of coins from the era.
Ancient shipwrecks located thanks to Poseidon
Ancient and historic shipwrecks have been found in the framework of archaeological surveys conducted by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in the sea area between Corfu and Paxoi.
Continuity down through the ages
Archaeological excavations have provided the first substantiation that a farmland estate in Sicily boasts a history which reaches back over a thousand years.
Turkey claims Cycladic statuette from Cleveland
Turkey's inquiry into 22 treasures at the Cleveland Museum of Art lacks hard proof of looting. Among them is a 5,000-year-old Cycladic “Stargazer” statuette.
From Iraq and back, via 9/11
A group of 4,000-year-old clay tablets that survived looting, confiscation by U.S. customs officials, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks is shedding light on what everyday life was like in ancient Iraq as an agricultural official.
The Role of Speculation in Science
And yet speculation is an essential part of science. So how does it fit in? Two recent publications, both about the misty depths of canine and human history, suggest some answers.
Uffizi to open 10 new rooms
The Uffizi Gallery will shortly open ten new spaces, dedicated to 16th-century painters, mainly from Tuscany, from Andrea del Sarto to Bronzino and Raffaello. There will also be a gallery with Hellenistic sculptures.
Excavation at Kourion
A team of archaeologists from a Texas theological seminary and the University of Cyprus is hoping to reveal the ordinary domestic lives of Cyprus’ early Christians in a new dig at Kourion (Curium) which was destroyed by a series of earthquakes around 365 AD.
Ancient sealing offers first mention of Bethlehem
A newly discovered clay fragment is the first evidence outside the Bible that Bethlehem existed as a city at the time of the First Temple in Jerusalem, archaeologists say
Waiting for tourists
On the road to Egypt's Djoser step pyramid at Saqqara there's not a trace of a tourist anywhere, and a handful of trinket and souvenir salesmen sit on a metal railing hoping for a lucky break.
The skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath
Sarcophagus containing bones of Roman woman and rodents that chewed her ankle go on show at Cambridge museum.
70 suspects, 16,344 artefacts
Italian police on Friday said they were investigating 70 people for trading thousands of looted archaeological artefacts including ancient coins and vases on Internet auction site eBay.
Curses against Senator and… animal doctor
Αt a time when black magic was relatively common, two curses involving snakes were cast, one targeting a senator and the other an animal doctor, says a Spanish researcher who has just deciphered the 1,600-year-old curses.
Megiddo dig unearths cache of buried Canaanite treasure
Archaeologists believe the stash of jewelery and beads made of semi-precious stone and gold dates from around 1100 B.C.E.