2+ hour, 28+ min ago   (500+ words) When people imagine archaeology, they often picture a spectacular object being lifted from the ground: a gold ornament, a carved stone or a decorated pot. For archaeologists, the object is only part of the evidence. The soil around it, the…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (764+ words) What is a megalith? The word comes from Greek roots meaning “large stone,” and archaeologists use it for monuments built with large stones or substantial stone settings. That definition is broad on purpose. A standing stone, a chambered tomb, a…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (691+ words) The discovery is the first clear evidence that medieval books and sustained reading were present on the island, rather than arriving only through later English administration. The fragments were identified by researchers studying the material history of Guernsey’s records. A…...

3+ day, 23+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (675+ words) Murujuga in Western Australia holds one of the world’s largest concentrations of rock art, with engravings made over roughly 50,000 years. New research suggests that historic sulfur pollution may have altered a wider area of the carved rock than earlier assessments…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (559+ words) Ancient Egyptian artists were working with a much wider range of materials than the usual picture of "paint and glue" suggests. A new analysis of 28 microscopic samples from 14 painted objects found evidence for glues made from several animals, along with…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (103+ words) Stone tools from a Saudi Arabian desert site resemble Neanderthal technology, offering evidence of a possible Neanderthal presence 60,000–50,000 years ago. Before your next upload Clean image metadata before you share. Remove EXIF, GPS and common AI metadata before you share....

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (653+ words) Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (433+ words) In the right sample, it can reveal relationships that bones alone cannot show: who was related, which groups moved, where populations mixed, and which genetic changes survived after a community disappeared. It can also show what ancient DNA cannot do....

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (644+ words) Qurayyah Painted Ware carried repeatable designs across Bronze Age Arabia. New research suggests that its makers built recognition and demand around a distinctive style more than 3,000 years ago. The comparison does not mean Bronze Age traders had modern advertising departments....