Over the past five years, archaeologists have identified more than 1,600 monumental stone structures known as mustatils dotted across a swathe of Saudi Arabia larger than Italy. The purpose of these ancient stone buildings, dating back more than 7,000 years, has been a puzzle for researchers. Our excavations and surveys reveal these were ritual structures, ...
New insights into the area where the caliph’s palace of Khirbat al-Minya was built on the shores of the Sea of Galilee have been revealed with the help of geomagnetic surface surveys and subsequent hands-on digging, an excavation team from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). According to these findings, Christian or Jewish inhabitants had already ...
An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artifacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were octopus lures and that the devices, similar versions of which have been found on islands across the Pacific, are the oldest known artifacts of their kind in the world. The study used carbon dating of archaeological layers to confirm that lures ...
Using the latest scientific methods, Tom Higham and Katerina Douka from the University of Vienna want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left? Higham and Douka were the first ones to find a first-generation offspring of two different types of humans by studying ancient genes. They continuously ...
A unique compound bow from the Bronze Age nearly two meters tall was reconstructed from authentic materials by SUSU specialists as part of an international team. This weapon had the greatest accuracy, shooting distance, and killing power of its time. Reconstructing objects according to archaeological data is one of the most important fields of modern ...
The excavation of an abandoned mausoleum and silver extraction taking place on an industrial scale at a Roman site in rural Kent has left archaeologists with a 1,500-year-old mystery. Excavation found silver extraction on an industrial scale Archaeologists working on an excavation at Grange Farm, near Gillingham, discovered 15 kilograms of litharge — a material ...
The age of the earliest human remains in East Africa widely recognized as representing our Homo sapiens species has long been uncertain. Now, the dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than previously thought. The remains — known as Omo I — were found in Ethiopia in the late 1960s, ...
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 ...
The members of the Middle Don expedition of IA RAS have found a unique plate with a depiction of winged Scythian gods surrounded by griffons during their examinations of the barrow cemetery Devitsa V in the Ostrogozhsky District of Voronezh Oblast. This is the first case of such a finding in the Scythian barrows on ...
A team of international researchers led by the University of Arizona reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Mayan monument — Aguada Fénix. That same team has now uncovered nearly 500 smaller ceremonial sites that are similar in shape and features to Aguada Fénix. The find transforms previous understanding of Mesoamerican ...
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