3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (572+ words) Epigraphy—the study of inscriptions—connects the writing with the object and the place where it was found. A useful way to understand the process is to follow three different clues: the marks themselves, the language, and the evidence for…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (664+ words) At Sardis in western Türkiye, archaeologists have recovered a statue that spent part of its life as building material. The figure was made nearly 2,500 years ago, broken in two and placed face-down in a Roman colonnaded avenue. Its reuse preserved…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (340+ words) At the Etruscan city of Kainua in northern Italy, archaeologists have found a deep well containing intact bronze objects, a distinctive plate and human remains. The location and the objects suggest that the well had a ritual role, although researchers…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (681+ words) How do archaeologists date pottery? Usually, they do not look at a single shard and read a year from it. A ceramic fragment becomes useful when its shape, clay, decoration, manufacturing technique and archaeological position are compared with other dated…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1424+ words) Heavy slabs still cover a small room inside one of Karahantepe’s most unusual Neolithic buildings. Archaeologists plan to enter it from above during the 2026 excavation season, opening a space that may have remained closed for roughly 12,000 years. At some point…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1652+ words) New surveys have detected possible houses beyond Göbekli Tepe’s excavated monuments, while rooms already uncovered contain benches, grinding stones, storage spaces, and vessels. The famous sanctuary is beginning to look like the centre of a lived-in settlement. Archaeologists have now…...