3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (503+ words) A new study pushes back the earliest known millet consumption in Bronze Age Europe by more than a century. Researchers found evidence of millet eating in southeastern Poland around 1590 BCE. The finding comes from a study of human remains from…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (371+ words) A joint Spanish-Egyptian archaeological team has uncovered a tomb dating to the late Fifth Dynasty at Saqqara, Egypt. The tomb dates to the reign of King Djedkare Isesi, who ruled near the end of the Fifth Dynasty. The team found…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (525+ words) Archaeologists have begun a new season of research at San Giovanni, inside the Le Cesine State Nature Reserve near Vernole in southern Italy. The 2026 campaign runs from September 7 to October 4, with work both on land and underwater. The project is…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (589+ words) Ancient Mediterranean harbors are often judged by the structures still visible today. Quays, jetties and moles form the clearest traces, so they often shape estimates of how many ships a port once handled. A new study argues for a wider…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (466+ words) Archaeologists working at the Libisosa Archaeological Park in Lezuza, Albacete, have recovered a rare stone sculpture more than 2,000 years old. The near life-size head was carved from limestone and recovered from the ruins of a large Roman building in 2025. The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (683+ words) Ancient Etruscan tombs may have been designed to shape how people saw, heard and felt during funeral rites, according to a new study of two painted tombs in Tarquinia, Italy. The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (491+ words) For nearly 180 years, archaeologists studying Nimrud in northern Iraq have focused on palaces, temples, and royal buildings. A new project is shifting attention to the vast lower city, where most of the Assyrian capital’s people lived. The Nimrud Lower Town…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (486+ words) A joint Egyptian-Chinese archaeological mission has uncovered the remains of a mud-brick housing complex and a stone structure likely used for wine production at the Temple of Sekhmet in Mit Rahina, Egypt. The finds offer new evidence about daily life…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (506+ words) An ancient tomb, a network of burial shafts, and hundreds of funerary objects have been found at Saqqara, Egypt, during the first excavation season in a new area west of the Bubastion necropolis. The Egyptian archaeological mission working in Sector…...