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Tourists crowd to film the sun while sending a beam of light into the Great Temple of Ramses II's dark inner chamber in Abu Simbel, 870 kilometers (540 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, a rare 3,200-year-old astronomical ceremony that happens…
Kelly GrafArchaeologists excavating Shég’ Xdaltth’i’ found more than 80,000 relics that demonstrate how ancestral Native Americans lived some 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists excavating a prehistoric site in Alaska known as Shég’ Xdaltth’i’ discovered a wealth of remains from a 13,000-year-old base camp…
An analysis of their skulls paints a picture of our archaic cousins 1:00 PM CDT on October 22, 2026 Of course, much of what we know about these enigmatic hominins is still new. As we uncover more fossils and technology and molecular techniques…
Ancient DNA reveals medieval Sicily as a genetic melting pot, where people buried in Christian and Muslim cemeteries shared roots in North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Sicily changed rulers repeatedly between the 5th and 15th centuries CE, passing through the hands…
It’s not quite the lost city of Atlantis, but scientists have uncovered a slice of history that had been swallowed up by the sea. Experts admitted that even they were surprised when divers unearthed a 7,000-year-old stone road that had…
A statue of an ancient Persian king might seem like an unlikely addition to the city of Atlanta. To the people who spent years bringing him here, there’s no more fitting place in America. This week, crews installed a 29-foot…
The German federal government has set up an immediate program to recover munitions in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. In order to achieve this, it has commissioned the construction and operation of a platform designed to remediate dumped munitions…
OLD BENNINGTON – Archaeology crews excavating around the Bennington Monument are off this week but plan to return Sunday, prior to an open house public event on Monday. The remains of those structures are “under quite a lot of fill,” added…
Archaeologists excavating the remains of a lost medieval royal palace in Germany have uncovered a 10th-century stone building that may have housed important members of the royal court. The discovery at Helfta, once a residence of Emperor Otto the Great,…
As night falls, the Istanbul Archaeological Museum takes on a different character. Artificial lighting illuminates its facades, sculptures, and architectural details, turning daytime grandeur into a more intimate journey where light and shadow bring each feature to life. This transformation…