Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia have discovered people who lived in northwest Arabia in the Early to Middle Bronze Age built “funerary avenues” — long-distance ancient corridors linking oases and pastures, bordered by thousands of elaborate burial monuments. Dr. Matthew Dalton, from UWA’s School of Humanities, is the lead author of the findings ...
Many Dutch ships passed the West Australian coast while en route to Southeast Asia in the 1600s. The national heritage listed shipwreck Batavia has revealed through its timbers the history of the shipbuilding materials that enabled Dutch seafaring domination through the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to flourish against major European rivals for the first time. ...
Have you ever wanted to go to the Kenyan desert and go on a hunt for fossils? Now, you can be an armchair archaeologist without even leaving home. The University of Bradford and Turkana Basin Institute have started a collaborative online citizen science initiative called Fossil Finder. Members of the public have been asked to help ...
As of July 2021, a total of 1,154 World Heritage Sites exist across the world. Out of 167 countries, Italy has the most sites under the Unesco World Heritage Sites list, with 58 selected areas. One of those areas that is included, which has always been on my travel bucket list, is Pompeii. Modern Pompeii is ...
A new study led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean and ASU doctoral graduate Emily Hallett details more than 60 bone tools and one tool made from the tooth of a cetacean, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. These finds, first unearthed from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco, in 2011, are highly suggestive proxy evidence for the earliest clothing in ...
A renowned museum director and historian, Julian Spalding, has a new Stonehenge theory. It has been long believed that it was a semi-circle. But after a remarkable discovery that numerous stones had been removed, we now know that it was a full circle. Spalding now believes he knows what the 5,000-year-old mysterious stone circle was used for. It does make ...
In archaeometallurgy, the study of ancient metal artifacts, archaeologists have historically taken a top-down approach, meaning that the jewelry, tools, weapons, and other metal artifacts they discover have come to signify a dominant ruling group that exerted overarching control over how to use such resources. The Penn Museum’s Joyce White and Elizabeth Hamilton have a different idea. In ...
Pioneering technology has helped experts find a lost camp built and used by thousands of Roman soldiers sent to conquer Northwest Iberia. The discovery is the largest and oldest Roman military fortified enclosure excavated so far in Galicia and northern Portugal. The foundations of the enclosure wall date from around the second century B.C. Experts ...
Sometimes, archaeologists come across remains of ancient civilizations purely by chance. Similarly, old era habitats, ancient relics, or a lost village, ruins of ancient cities devoured by natural or man-made calamities reappear when they are least expected, such as the lost village of Curon in Italy. One such scene took place in Italy where the ...
In Sweden, a hobby cartographer accidentally came across a Bronze Age discovery that is being described as a 2,500-year-old treasure trove. The startling discovery has made headlines and archaeologists are curious, naturally. The treasure comprises 50 pieces of jewelry and other relics in the set, say the authorities. It is a significant discovery that throws ...
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