Roman soldier’s 1,900-year-old tombstone mysteriously found in a New Orleans backyard
When Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, went to clear weeds behind their home in New Orleans’ Carrollton neighborhood, they discovered a heavy marble slab with…
Ancient shipwrecks rewrite 500 years of Iron Age Mediterranean trade
Archaeologists from the University of California at San Diego and the University of Haifa have discovered the oldest known Iron Age ship cargoes found in a known…
Ancient stone tools show Europe’s early humans innovated independently from the Near East 42,000 years ago
About 42,000 years ago, early modern humans across Europe and the Near East began producing remarkably similar types of stone tools. Archaeologists had long ᴀssumed that these…
Ancient birch tar reveals how Europe’s first farmers chewed, cooked, and crafted 6,000 years ago
In Neolithic Europe, long before writing or metal tools, people relied on an incredible substance—birch bark tar. A new study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society…
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…