Artificial intelligence is detecting new archaeological sites in the Arabian Desert Especially in areas that are unsuitable for human exploration, archaeologists are increasingly coming up with inventive ways to use satellite imagery and artificial intelligence in their hunt for secrets that lay hidden.  Researchers at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi have developed a high-tech solution …

World’s oldest cheese found in necklaces on 3600-year-old mummies in China A mysterious white substance about 20 years ago found on Bronze Age mummies in western China has proven to be the world’s oldest  cheese. Researchers discovered three ancient mummies in Xinjiang in northwestern China. When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated, archeologists discovered a …

7,000 years ago the earliest evidence for the cultivation of a fruit tree came from the Jordan valley Tel Aviv University and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University researchers have unraveled the earliest evidence for the domestication of a fruit tree. According to the researchers, the first domestication of fruit trees anywhere in the world took place in …

A Temple Guardian From The 13th Century Found At Cambodia’s Angkor Wat While clearing rubble from a collapsed gate at the Banteay Prei Temple within Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Archaeological Park, workers stumbled upon a sandstone door guardian statue dating back 700 years. Archaeologists believe the statue may have been buried when the upper structure of the …

Japan’s Oldest Multiplication Table Discovered in Nara, Dating Back 1,300 Years A strip of wood discovered in the ruins of  Fujiwara Palace in  Nara Prefecture turned out to be part of Japan’s oldest multiplication table dating back about 1300 years. The Fujiwara Palace site is the remains of an ancient capital city located in the environs of Takadono-chō and …

148 Ancient Tombs Spanning 2,100 Years Unearthed in the Construction Area of the Zoo An ancient burial site with 148 tombs,  spanning over 2,100 years, has been discovered on the construction site of the Guangzhou Zoo in South China’s Guangdong Province. The tombs date from the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) to the early years following the …

2,600-year-old Terracotta Pipeline found in India During the 10th phase of archaeological excavations at the Keeladi archaeological site in Tamil Nadu, India, archaeologists uncovered a terracotta pipeline that shows the existence of an ancient water management practice practiced by humans 2,600 years ago. Ancient city Keeladi in southern India serves as a reminder that our ancestors had …

A 1,000-year-old burial chariot dating back to the Liao Dynasty, founded by the nomadic Khitan discovered in Inner Mongolia Archaeologists from the Insтιтute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have discovered a hearse from the Liao Dynasty (916-1125) founded by the nomadic Khitan in Kailu County, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia. …

A Newly Found 12,000-year-old Burial in Türkiye May Belong to a Female ‘Shaman’ A recently published study suggests that a woman buried in the upper reaches of the Tigris River in south-eastern Türkiye around 12,000 years ago may have been a shaman believed to have had a spiritual connection with wild animals. According to researchers, …