Major project to document all Egypt’s sites
Eight years after giving the go-ahead for the National Project to Document Egypt’s Heritage, Beni Hassan necropolis in the Upper Egyptian town of Minya has become the first site on the list to be documented.
1.5m historic artefacts ‘not in museums’
Nearly 1.5m archaeological objects uncovered by commercial companies in Northern Ireland have not been passed on to local museums, the BBC has learned.
Excavation hopes to reveal more about Roman Maryport
A team led by Newcastle University’s Professor Ian Haynes and Current Archaeology magazine’s Archaeologist of the Year Tony Wilmott, has started work in Maryport .
Sun god’s disc set to rise
The museum would display a large collection belonging to the ancient Egyptian monotheistic pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti that was unearthed at Tel Al-Amarna, near Minya, the site of the capital city of Egypt during Akhenaten's reign.
Seventy Egyptian artefacts found in illegal possession are authenticated
The archaeological committee of the central administration for confiscated antiquities, led by Youssef Khalifa, verified the authenticity of a collection of ancient Egyptian objects that were found in the possession of three people in Giza.
Early Iron Age Fashion from Denmark
The analyses revealed that in the early Iron Age, people were able to dye their clothes yellow, blue and red.
Part of Persepolis sewage system unearthed
A team of Iranian archaeologists has recently discovered 20 meters of a canal of the sewage system of Persepolis in southern Iran.
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.