3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (637+ words) A Curtin University-led research team has successfully identified the mysterious origin of several 4,000-year-old 25-ton stones, which ancient architects used to construct Britain’s iconic Devil’s Arrows, as Birmingham Rocks in North Yorkshire, over 11 miles (18 kilometers) from the monument’s location. The…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (370+ words) An important Egyptian tomb from the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom has been discovered in the Saqqara necropolis by a Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission. Josep Cervelló, an Egyptology professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, led the work, which was…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (446+ words) The story of a Medieval European plague is coming into focus through historic manuscripts, but not in the way you might think. Instead of providing mere historical accounts, the animal skins from which these Medieval volumes are constructed provide genetic…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (587+ words) More than 4,000 years ago, an Egyptian official named Sekhentiu-Ptah held a collection of titles that placed him remarkably close to royal power. He oversaw the king’s works and documents, supervised scribes, and even served as the “Keeper of the Secrets…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (446+ words) The story of a Medieval European plague is coming into focus through historic manuscripts, but not in the way you might think. Instead of providing mere historical accounts, the animal skins from which these Medieval volumes are constructed provide genetic…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (727+ words) Prehistoric art hidden in caves throughout southwestern Ireland for thousands of years could push back the timeline on the earliest human presence on the Emerald Isle by as much as 5,000 years, archaeologists say. The remarkable discoveries may reveal a previously…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (684+ words) Nine centuries ago, people gathered at what is today recognized as the Etowah Indian Mounds site, located roughly 40 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, for enormous community feasts. They ate, drank, and eventually discarded broken pottery into pits that would become…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (458+ words) High in the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists working at an ancient pre-Hispanic settlement nearly 3,400 meters above sea level might not have expected to uncover evidence of sophisticated ancient technology. However, that is precisely what was unearthed during excavations at the Wancasanga…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (367+ words) Long before the age of the Pharaohs and the monumental construction that defined the ancient Egyptian world, the famed Gift of the Nile was once a sea filled with hungry monsters. Today, evidence of these ancient aquatic beasts can still…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (716+ words) A University of West Bohemia (UWB)- led team of archaeologists has unearthed an ancient Czech ritual center linked to the movement of the Sun and Moon, predating Stonehenge by over 1,000 years. The UWB-led team behind the discovery said the site’s…...