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Frontier archaeology traces the threads of ancient civilizations
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (458+ words) The symposium was jointly organized by the Society for Chinese Archaeology, the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the National Centre for Archaeology, and the Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Sciences. This year's event focused on…...
What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1741+ words) Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations—many were more egalitarian. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged 11:00 AM CDT on September 7, 2026 Why are some societies ruled by autocrats — powerful people who make all the decisions with…...
Archaeologists have dug at the Assyrian capital of Nimrud since 1845 almost entirely on its palace mound, and a new survey of the whole 340-hectare walled town around that mound has now mapped which periods it was occupied in, while magnetometry in selected sectors traced street systems, domestic neighbourhoods and larger complexes under farmland where ploughing is limited to about 0.2 metres
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (689+ words) By The Long View · Edited by Christy Jeremia Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit What the world knows about the Assyrian empire, it mostly knows from kings. The palace reliefs and the royal inscriptions that shaped that picture came out of…...
A New Type of 4,600-Year-Old Board Game Discovered at Iran???s Burnt City
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1048+ words) Archaeologists working at Shahr-i Sokhta, the Bronze Age settlement better known as Iran’s Burnt City, have discovered a new type of 4,600-year-old board game, adding an unexpected chapter to a site already famous for preserving one of the ancient world’s…...
Iraq’s archaeological discoveries have shaped understanding of human civilisation – but its scientists have been sidelined
1+ week, 3+ day ago (648+ words) In recent years, archaeologists from around the world have marked the centenaries of some of Iraq's most influential archaeological discoveries. The excavation of the ancient city of Ur, for example, transformed understanding of early urban life, long-distance trade, royal tombs…...
Joint effort sheds light on ancient past
1+ week, 5+ day ago (458+ words) On the northern bank of the Yassy River beneath the Fergana Mountains, the ruins of Shorobashat in Kyrgyzstan are offering new clues to the region's ancient past, thanks to a joint effort by Chinese and Kyrgyz archaeologists. The collaborative archaeological…...
NOT SOLID ROCK: Veteran U.S. Defense Scientist Deploys Advanced EarthRadar Technology at Turkey’s Boat-Shaped Noah’s Ark Formation
3+ week, 4+ day ago (344+ words) Dr. Khosrow Bakhtar, veteran of 25+ U.S. Department of Defense projects and author of 200+ technical papers, deploys his BakhtarRadar at the 515-foot Durupınar Formation. Preliminary results are already challenging the decades-old claim that the site is nothing more than a natural mass…...
Archaeologists Just Found 3 Previously-Unknown Assyrian Kings. Turns Out Assryia's Royal History Is More Petty Than We Thought
3+ week, 5+ day ago (557+ words) New York Public LibraryA 19th-century illustration of a king in an Assyrian palace. For over a century, historians believed they had a clear picture of who ruled ancient Assyria during the final centuries of the empire. Now, two scholars say…...
Did Assyrians Invent the Telescope 2,700 Years Ago? The Mystery of the Nimrud Lens
4+ week, 9+ hour ago (1045+ words) The possibility sounds extraordinary. The earliest documented telescope is generally associated with the Netherlands in 1608, when spectacle maker Hans Lippershey sought a patent for an instrument that made distant objects appear closer. Yet the Nimrud Lens was manufactured between about…...