Archaeology News
Stay updated with the latest archaeology news. We provide you with the latest top archaeological finds from all across the world.
Archaeology Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent expedition by an archaeology team from the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury to Enderby in the Auckland Island archipelago plans to
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An airborne laser scanning study has led to the surprising discovery of an ancient, unknown Maya city hidden deep in the jungle in
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages - People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Tormod Fjeld was hiking with his family in the Moss area when they stopped for a rest break near a boulder, Viken County
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023,
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands". Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncienyPages.com - Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted.
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three 1850-year-old stone ossuaries have been retrieved in an operation carried out to prevent antiquity looting near Kafr Kanna in Galilee. Photography by
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Tribal earth ovens built long before the Egyptian pyramids are being excavated as part of the first archeological project made public by
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report the discovery of an ancient pendant that may have the oldest carving of a penis ever unearthed. The stone was found
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Digital modelling of legendary fossil’s soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge (UK) in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While repairing an old sewer pipe under the road in Erling Skakkes gate 9 in Trondheim, Norway, archaeologists carried out an urgent survey
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study shows that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Were anatomically modern humans the only ones who knew how to turn bone into tools? A discovery by an international team at the
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The earliest-known evidence of freshwater fishing by ancient Alaskan people was discovered by a team of researchers led by University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It was during the winter of 2022, archaeologists conducted excavations in two areas at Framlingham Road, Laxfield, Suffolk. The site, showing the evaluation
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - At our recent Taylor Wimpey excavation at Bidwell West, Bedfordshire, our Milton Keynes field team have uncovered a medieval timber-framed building and a series of medieval enclosure ditches.
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Mikołajki, Poland, have made a surprising discovery. Researchers announced they had encountered an unusual archaeological object providing traces of prehistoric
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previous archaeological excavations in Jersey revealed Neanderthals visited La Cotte de St Brelade, a coastal cave for over 100,000 years. The cave was
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating site Stöð on Stöðvarfjörður in East Iceland have found a small stone carved with a Viking Ship. This little find may
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met. We know that for thousands
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A very rare 3,000-year-old sword has been found in Bayern, Germany. The sword from the Middle Bronze Age is still in such good
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old skull unearthed in a tomb may offer evidence ancient Romans were the first to breed dogs with flat faces. Examination of
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hundreds of human skulls and mandibles recovered from the Crenshaw site in southwest Arkansas are the remains of ancestors of the Caddo Nation
Read More
Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren's disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report discovering an "incredibly rare" Roman tomb near London Bridge Station, UK. Last year, archaeologists found very largest Roman mosaics at the
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the site of the A40 Science Transit park & ride at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, have made some interesting discoveries. During
Read More
Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As an archaeologist, you can expect to find some surprises everywhere. That's what happened during recent excavations on a hill in Tystberga outside
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Kythnos on the Aegean Sea island has long fascinated archaeologists. The site, first inhabited about 10,000 years ago, has some
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers, including a Virginia Commonwealth University professor, has discovered rare prehistoric instruments made from the bones of birds dating back
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Everyone goes to the toilet, but it's not a subject we often discuss. Have you ever wondered how people in the past went
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique hog-shaped pottery item - probably a child's toy approximately 6,000 years ago, was unearthed in east China's Jiangsu Province. The pottery pig
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A fragment of a statue depicting the Greek god Pan, has been unearthed during the excavations in Istanbul’s Saraçhane Archaeological Park. It is a new artifact recently discovered
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It's impossible to say how many ancient shipwrecks can be found throughout the Mediterranean. Many civilizations, such as Egyptians, Phoenicians, Romans, and Greeks,
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered that shells were essential to our ancient ancestors on several occasions. Shells are one of the oldest ways humans have
Read More
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A couple in Denmark found a huge runestone under the floor while renovating the kitchen in their house in the village Mosekær just
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Medieval religious music is often perceived as being simple, and not particularly flashy or lavish. It often had a function that goes beyond
Read More
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from Morocco in northwest Africa revealed that food production was introduced by Neolithic European and Levantine
Read More
