Exploration of Biblical battle site reaches new depth
This summer, Tel Aviv University's Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology is adding another excavation to their already expansive list of seven active digs, in Azekah.
Controversy over price-tagging of artifacts continues
Controversy continues to surround the decision of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to pass a number of statutory amendments relating to the holding of artifacts by museums.
Germans Loot Nigerian Artefacts
While the federal government is locked in a losing war with oil thieves, a professional group has raised the alarm about “artefact thieves” who are quietly plundering national monuments valued at millions of dollars yearly.
Mexicans find millennium-old game board
Archaeologists carrying out restoration at a site in the southeastern state of Campeche discovered a Mayan game board dating from more than 1,000 years ago
Paphos archaeological sites to be upgraded
The Antiquities Department has agreed to upgrade popular archaeological sites in Paphos, according to the regional board of tourism.
Figure of “the horny little man”
The outline of a figure scratched into a cave in Lapa do Santo in central-eastern Brazil is believed to be between 10,000 and 12,000 years and has been dubbed "the horny little man" because of its oversized phallus.
The two colossi of Memnon are now three!
The two Colossi of Memnon that stand at the entrance to the ruined mortuary temple of Amenhotep III now have a brother.
Student takes award for revealing submerged city’s secrets
PhD student Ariell Friedman was awarded top prize in Canon Australia's inaugural Extreme Imaging competition for students making advances in imaging science
Ruins of Aztec School Exhibited in Mexican Capital
The ruins of a school in the sprawling pre-Columbian city of Tenochtitlan where children of Aztec nobility received military and religious training are on display here at the Cultural Center of Spain
Czech archaeologists discover long-lost temple in Sudan
Czech archaeologists have found a long lost temple from the Meroe period near the town of Vad Bon Naga in Sudan.
New finds at Kissonerga-Skalia
The Ministry of Communications and Works, Department of Antiquities announces the completion of the latest season of excavation at the Early–Middle Bronze Age settlement of Kissonerga-Skalia.
Temple of Mithras comes home
Construction work forces return of remains of Roman temple to the god Mithras to original London home after 58 years
Rare tomb of woman found in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
The only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found in the Valley of the Kings
Using Modern Tools to Reconstruct Ancient Life
To the naked eye, the white, powdery substance appeared to be plaster. That's what the professional and volunteer archaeologists at a dig in Israel concluded.
Roman brothel token discovered in Thames
A Roman coin that was probably used by a lustful legionary has washed up on the banks of the Thames.
In ancient Pompeii, trash and tombs went hand in hand
Cemeteries in ancient Pompeii were “mixed-use developments” with a variety of purposes that included serving as an appropriate site to toss out the trash.
Modern disease found in ancient bones
US scientists said Tuesday that their study of a set of medieval bones found in Albania has revealed traces of a modern infectious disease that afflicts people who eat unpasteurized dairy products.
The greengrocer’s curse
A vegetable seller named Babylas was the target of an alarming curse nearly 2,000 years ago.
Stink raised over landfill at ancient Rome site
There's a big controversy there over a landfill scheduled to open in the new year, near one of Italy's most treasured sites, Hadrian's Villa, where a legendary emperor lived more than 18 hundred years ago.
Drought Led to Demise of Ancient City of Angkor
The ancient city of Angkor — the most famous monument of which is the breathtaking ruined temple of Angkor Wat — might have collapsed due to valiant but ultimately failed efforts to battle drought, scientists find.
German mould-warriors help to save Thailand’s wet books
Anders and his colleagues Oliver Messerschmidt and restorer Jana Moczarskihas from the Centre for Book Preservation (ZfB) in Leipzig were invited by the Geothe Institute to bring their specialist knowledge to Thailand, where no one knows how to save the valuable books from mould and destruction.
China’s tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history
Bulldozers and dynamite used to strip priceless artefacts from remote sites, with booty sold on to wealthy collectors
Myra city awaiting its ‘lost child’ relief
The relief was one of the most important smuggled artifacts in the country and added that it had famously come from a rock grave with many images in Myra
Priceless Roman mosaic irreparably damaged by thieves in Burgos
A priceless IV Century Roman mosaic in Baños de Valderados, Burgos, has been irreparably damaged by thieves, who ripped out three separate sections, including one measuring almost 2.5 square metres, in a theft which was discovered on Wednesday.