archaeology

The remarkable discoveries include the best-preserved early image of Jesus discovered near the Turkish city of Iznik

2,000 miles from Egypt, scientists have uncovered a fascinating artifact in Spain: an Egyptian amulet. But how did it end up there?

The Qin Dynasty brew was thick, sour, and packed with living yeast cells that shouldn't have survived.

Deep inside the ruins of an ancient fort, researchers uncovered a collection of gold coins belonging to an emperor most people have never heard of.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans — and they’re an astonishing 430,000 years old. Buried for hundreds of thousands of years at an ancient lakeside site in Greece, the carefully carved wooden objects reveal that early humans were far more skilled and resourceful than once believed.

Hidden beneath northern Mexico, an ancient village remained unnoticed for centuries until modern construction unexpectedly brought it back into view.

A young hiker found a V12 engine high in the Scottish mountains, but the strange metal relic was only the first clue to a tragedy buried for 75 years.

A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted...

Ancient remains and objects were uncovered in a northern Britain cave. Scientists are now trying to find out who they belonged to.

Across the windswept plains of Laos, thousands of mysterious stone jars hide secrets centuries old. Recent excavations are finally beginning to uncover what's inside.

A stunning find beneath a German city has exposed an Iron Age structure so unusual that experts say it could rewrite the area’s ancient past.

A new film about this corner of southern Italy reveals rarely visited villas, seismic landscapes and a ‘civilisation buried mid-sentence’ – all accessible by train One by one, the visitors descend through a tight tunnel cut through volcanic rock into the damp foundations of the Teatro Romano buried beneath Herculaneum, with the weight of 2,000 years of city above them. “This is a time machine,” t…

A technique that has rewritten the timeline of prehistoric art may be overestimating the ages of cave paintings, some scientists say.

Luminescence dating has confirmed Roman exploitation of alluvial gold in the Eastern Pyrenees for the first time. For centuries, stories of gold hidden in the rivers of the Pyrenees have circulated across the Iberian Peninsula, with even medieval Islamic sources praising the quality of gold from the Segre River for minting coins. Now, researchers have [...]

Divers captured the first clear images of a 2,400-year-old settlement that refused to disappear.

Ancient DNA reveals how family bonds helped Andean communities survive climate crisis, disease, and the pressures of early farming. A recent study published in Nature reconstructs more than 2,000 years of population history in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley (UV), a region at the southern edge of ancient Andean farming expansion. The research sheds new light on [...]

Crystals preserved inside a prehistoric bone led scientists to revise the estimated age of the archaeological site, suggesting that its stone tools were crafted during a severe ice age. In central China, scientists have spent more than a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans processed animal remains. Among the bones, archaeologists [...]

New DNA evidence could change our understanding of how humans settled and spread in South America as research has revealed long-distance migration began centuries earlier than previously thought. An international research team uncovered evidence that extensive coastal migration in Peru began at least eight centuries ago, well before the Inca Empire rose to power. The findings, published in Nature…

An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the invention and evolution of apparel in the world's colder climates.

The Kusuma Neolithic Hall, based on Durrington 68 site, will allow visitors to ‘step back in time’ into the lives of those who built the stone circle It may have been a place for ceremony or a barn for pack animals. It could have been a place for weary labourers to rest their heads. Or perhaps there was no building at all. English Heritage has unveiled a 7-metre-high reconstruction of what a 4,50…