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The Saqqara Bird, an Egyptian object from 200 BC that looks like a miniature airplane
1+ week, 5+ day ago (892+ words) It is very common to find images of birds in the art of Ancient Egypt. We see them in paintings and sculptures with species of all kinds, from the ducks hunted on the Nile to the ibis that lent its…...
Adobe Houses and a Wine Press from the Era of Ramesses II Found in Memphis Reveal How Ancient Egyptians Lived Away from the Pharaohs
1+ week, 4+ day ago (524+ words) The joint archaeological mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Shanghai Museum, which has been working for several seasons in the area of the Temple of Sekhmet in Mit Rahina, has unveiled a series of discoveries…...
Scientists Solve a 1,700-Year-Old Jewelry Mystery Found in a Germanic Princess Grave on Rome's Doorstep
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (890+ words) In 2022, medical CT scanners let Egyptologists peer inside sealed sarcophagi without ever lifting a lid. In 2026, the same basic technology — pointed not at a pharaoh’s mummy but at two silver brooches from a German field — has just done something similar for…...
Archaeologists discover that ancient ports were much larger than we imagined: Roman ships did not only dock at the piers
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (945+ words) Researchers from the University of Haifa and the Paul Valery University of Montpellier demonstrate that outer anchorage areas were decisive in maritime traffic in Antiquity, which forces a rewriting of port importance rankings. Underwater archaeology is experiencing a silent revolution....
Archaeologists Unveil the Hidden City of Nimrud, the Ancient Assyrian Capital Forgotten for 180 Years
1+ week, 3+ day ago (711+ words) A project from the University of Udine combines drones, magnetic sensors, and surface surveys to map for the first time the vast lower city of the ancient metropolis, where the non-elite population lived. For nearly two centuries, archaeologists excavating Nimrud,…...
Wildfires May Have Taught Humans to Make Pottery
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (627+ words) The research, published in the journal Geomorphology, comes from Amos Frumkin, a geomorphologist at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Frumkin pieced together evidence from lake sediments, cave formations, charcoal deposits, and archaeological sites across…...
A Judge Who Worked 150 Years After the Great Pyramid Just Had His Tomb Opened — and the Paint Is Still Wet-Looking
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (547+ words) An archaeologist mapped the spot in the 1800s and moved on. A century and a half later, a Spanish-Egyptian team finally dug there — and found a judge's tomb with its paint still on the walls. When the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette…...
Submerged Etruscan Port from the 4th Century BC, the Oldest Linked to a Temple, Discovered Two Meters Deep off the Coast of Rome
2+ week, 4+ day ago (880+ words) A 4th-century BC docking structure, located 130 meters from the Punta della Vipera sanctuary, remained submerged at less than two meters deep. A team of underwater archaeologists and geologists from Sapienza University of Rome and the Center for Maritime Studies has…...
Tabula Peutingeriana, the only surviving road map of the Roman Empire
1+ week, 5+ day ago (625+ words) On November 26, 2007, the Austrian National Library did something it hardly ever does: it took the Tabula Peutingeriana out of its climate-controlled display case and allowed the public to see it for a few hours. Due to its extreme fragility, the…...
Britain's Tallest Prehistoric Stones Are Taller Than Stonehenge — And Scientists Just Found Where They Came From
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (19+ words) La Brújula Verde...