On 28 September 2026, Turkey's Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced on X the recovery of ...
Cyrene was one of the wealthiest Greek cities in the ancient Mediterranean, built on a plateau some 9 km (about 6 miles) ...
Picture ancient Egypt's funerary cult and the mind jumps to the dead themselves: the offerings, the gods, the pageantry. Easy to forget are the people who actually carried the bread, beer, and incense ...
A newly excavated Etruscan tomb near Rome has survived nearly a century of looting almost intact — and may hold the key to relocating a lost 19th-century treasure now scattered across the British ...
Archaeologists digging beside Notre-Dame have uncovered a fire-scarred wall of stone and timber that may belong to the Gaulish town Julius Caesar wrote about. The dating is still unconfirmed. Nobody ...
The newly identified fragment of the treaty of Kadesh. Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture A newly identified clay fragment unearthed at Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in central ...
A study argues that copper and lead mined in Bronze Age Sardinia traveled as far as Scotland, Poland and Scandinavia — nearly 1,240 miles from where they were smelted — while the island's pottery ...
Scientists have spent sixty years arguing over why the quantum weirdness that lets atoms exist in two states at once disappears by the time you get to a cat, a coffee cup, or a person. A new ...
Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods.
The team wasn’t even looking for a grave. Kjersti Væge, project director at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, was overseeing a dig at Kongefaret 8, on the Svinesund plateau ...
In late 2025, conservators from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum brought an unassuming object to the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire: a terret, a small bronze loop that Iron Age chariots used ...
The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giants’ Tomb that until ...