Roman hospital transformed into Byzantine church unearthed in ancient city of Kaunos
Archaeologists in southwestern Turkey have uncovered an astonishing architectural transformation in the ancient city of Kaunos—one that spans more than a millennium of history. Excavations near the…
Satellite images reveal 76 ancient hunting traps in Chile, uncovering millennia of survival in the Andes
Satellite imagery has revealed 76 ancient stone hunting traps and hundreds of previously unseen settlements in the high-alтιтude Andes of northern Chile—evidence that hunting and gathering persisted…
Archaeologists discover one of Egypt’s largest New Kingdom fortresses in North Sinai
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a large New Kingdom fortress at Tell El-Kharouba in North Sinai, near the town of Sheikh Zuweid and the Gaza border. The…
Psychedelic beer may have helped the Wari unite outsiders and build their pre-Inca empire in Peru
A new study suggests that the Wari, a pre-Inca civilization that flourished in the central Andes between 600 and 1000 CE, may have used a hallucinogenic beer…
Mᴀssive medieval silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins and jewelry unearthed near Stockholm
A man hunting for fishing worms near his summer house in the Stockholm area has made an amazing discovery: a large hoard of silver coins and jewelry…
Elite Bronze Age burial complex unearthed at Amarna-age port
Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved Late Bronze Age burial complex near the ancient coastal port of Yavneh-Yam in Israel, yielding rare evidence of Canaanite funeral practices and…
1,000-year-old Mesoamerican mummy from Mexico reveals ancient human gut microbiome
The remarkably well-preserved remains of a man who died in central Mexico around 1,000 years ago have revealed the ancient human microbiome — the community of bacteria…
Ancient 200-foot scorpion-shaped mound in Mexico may have served as a solstice observatory
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare scorpion-shaped mound in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley that was likely used to allow ancient Mesoamerican farmers to track the sun’s path during the…
Ancient Teotihuacan murals reveal possible 2,000-year-old Uto-Aztecan language
A new study published in Current Anthropology may have solved one of the largest mysteries of ancient Mesoamerica—the language spoken in Teotihuacan, the vast metropolis that dominated…
Ancient hominins in Italy butchered elephants 400,000 years ago and turned their bones into tools
A new paper published recently in PLOS ONE has uncovered evidence that early humans who inhabited the region near present-day Rome butchered a giant elephant around 404,000…