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Mar 3, 2025 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
LUXOR, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that an Egyptian-French archaeological mission made new discoveries at the Karnak […]
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
Skip to content INDONESIA Experts have long debated when the first people traveled from Asia to Oceania. New evidence from Mololo Cave on Waigeo Island in the province of Southwest Papua indicates that early seafarers navigated to the island at least 55,000 years ago. Archaeologists unearthed stone artifacts and animal bones attesting to human occupation in the cave at that early date. They also found a small object made from tree resin—likely used as a fuel source—which is the oldest...
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
Researchers have highlighted a unique way that some Vikings permanently marked their bodies, perhaps as a way of secretly identifying themselves with a specific group. Archaeologists examined the skulls of 130 men who were buried across the Viking world between the tenth and twelfth centuries and who had strange horizontal striations on their teeth. The majority of the men were found in the Kopparsvik cemetery on the Swedish island of Gotland, which was an important trading center.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
Eretria, one of ancient Greece’s most prominent and influential city-states during the sixth and fifth centuries b.c., lay just off the mainland on the island of Euboea. Meaning “town of rowers,” Eretria was among the first Greek cities to establish colonies around the Mediterranean, including, as early as the eighth century b.c., those at Cumae and Pithecusae on the Bay of Naples.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
aina.org | Jason Urbanus
Archaeologists didn't know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old Assyrian sculpture that had last been seen decades before. First documented in the nineteenth century and excavated in the early 1990s, the massive statue was subsequently reburied to protect it from turmoil in northern Iraq that threatened the site. By 2023, the political situation in the region had stabilized, allowing archaeologists to return.
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May 17, 2024 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
By JASON URBANUSNovember/December 2015Archaeologists working near upstate New York's Lake George have uncovered ruins from a partially constructed British fort that was once planned to be their largest in North America. Due to its key location along the waterways connecting New York and Canada, Lake George played a crucial role in the eighteenth-century French and Indian War and, later, the Revolutionary War.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
By JASON URBANUSMay/June 2024Many of the buildings along Pompeii's streets are covered with painted messages extolling the virtues of candidates running for office nearly 2,000 years ago. "These graffiti played a similar role to our electoral posters, to get consensus and support candidates," says classicist Maria Chiara Scappaticcio of the University of Naples Federico II.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
By JASON URBANUSMarch/April 2024Excavations in the English town of Rendlesham by archaeologists from the Suffolk County Council have confirmed its status as an important Anglo-Saxon royal center between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D. The site is located near the princely burials of Sutton Hoo and is mentioned in the Venerable Bede's eighth-century A.D. Ecclesiastical History of the English People as a residence of East Anglian kings.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
By JASON URBANUSMarch/April 2024Archaeologists have unearthed the unusual tomb of an Egyptian dignitary who was interred in the necropolis at Abusir around 2,500 years ago. The ornately decorated burial chamber, which was found at the bottom of a 45-foot-deep shaft, belonged to a man named Djehutyemhat, who served as a royal scribe. Although the grave's artifacts were looted, the room's rich decoration was preserved.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
archaeology.org | Jason Urbanus
More than 40 years ago, a Turkish sponge diver named Mehmet Çakir caused a stir among Anatolian archaeologists when he showed them sketches of objects that he had seen lying 150 feet deep on the seafloor off the coast of Kas, in southeastern Turkey. He described them as "metal biscuits with ears," but experts immediately recognized them as a type of metal bar known as an oxhide ingot that was commonly traded during the Bronze Age, 3,500 years ago.
