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…...

5+ day, 3+ 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…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (533+ words) A 6,500-year-old ritual center near Chleby in the Czech Republic was built more than 1,000 years before Stonehenge, new research shows. The large enclosure appears to have been planned around key movements of the Sun and Moon. Archaeologists from the University…...

2+ week, 3+ 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…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (577+ words) More than 40 vertical ovens have been found inside a medieval castle at Aruch in central Armenia. Known as tonirs, the ovens were built and rebuilt over several centuries as the castle changed into a place for daily life and work....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (724+ words) Archaeological work in 2026 has changed the dating of two medieval fortifications at Balchug, in modern Galich. Researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences found no evidence for a pre-Mongol fortress at the Lower Hillfort. The…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (553+ words) A medieval monastery long thought to have vanished has been located beneath a sports field in Roskilde, Denmark. Ground-penetrating radar has revealed well-preserved remains of Sankt Clara monastery, built in the 13th century. The ruins lie about one meter below the…...

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…...