A panel of the mosaic depicts a dog named Ocean. Around 1,800 years ago, a Roman household in what is now Turkey decorated the floor of its home with a detailed mosaic showing animals and mythological...
PC: Intentional incisions on Neolithic Obsidian arrowheads from Central Anatolia: A techno-functional and iconographic approach For nearly nine thousand years, a set of Anatolian arrowheads has been q...
On a summer day in 1831, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn left Louisville with little certainty about what awaited them. They were enslaved, newly married and facing the possibility that Lucie could be so...
A 3,000-year-old inscription naming Masn may help archaeologists identify the lost Egyptian city ( PC: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Discoveries at Tell Abu Seify in Qantara East are giving arc...
Archaeologists find the earliest physical evidence of brass-making in East Asia in southern China (PC: Cambridge University Press) A set of ancient crucibles found in Guangzhou is giving archaeologist...
On a small island off the coast of Sweden, a tragedy lay buried for thousands of years, hidden in the depths of a cave. Buried under ancient sediment, were the bones of a young woman and a fetus, esti...
Archaeologists in China have uncovered an extraordinary alcoholic drink that remained remarkably well preserved for more than 2,000 years inside an ancient bronze bottle. The vessel, recovered from a ...
PC: A worker cleans a mosaic floor uncovered during archaeological excavations at Villa Celimontana in Rome, Italy. Reuters Archaeologists in Rome have uncovered a second-century building featuring mo...
Tumuli illustration and photographs. Credit: D’Olivera et al. A hydroelectric dam under construction in Angola has led archaeologists to one of the country’s most important historical discoverie...
For centuries, the ancient Maya have been celebrated for their remarkable achievements in astronomy, mathematics and calendar-making. They tracked the movements of planets with extraordinary precision...