Lying horizontally inside the wall of a room between Enclosures B and D, a human statue more than 12,000 years old has been uncovered at Göbekli Te…
Read the article →Roped up like mountaineers, Russian archaeologists found thirty-one unknown engraved surfaces along the Pegtymel in August 2026, Asia's only rock a…
Read the article →Engineers ran a thousand numerical simulations on the walls of the Grat Be'al Gibri palace, built around 800 BCE in northern Ethiopia. The verdict:…
Read the article →The Marathousa 1 site in the Megalopolis basin, Greece, has yielded 430,000-year-old worked wood fragments -- the oldest portable wooden tools ever…
Read the article →Against all expectations, the brain is one of the most commonly preserved organs in archaeological contexts. A Journal of Proteome Research study catalogues over 4,000 cases and explains the mechanisms at work.
In the Keshikchidagh reserve of western Azerbaijan, kurgan no. 4 in the Sariyokhush valley has yielded the remains of a Middle Bronze Age warrior buried with a diorite mace, a bronze dagger and eleven arrowheads.
Ancient proteomics analysis of 23 teeth from Rising Star Cave reveals no trace of amelogenin Y. Does this mean all individuals buried in the Dinaledi Chamber were female?
A digitally reprocessed photograph reveals that Merneith, a figure of Egypt's First Dynasty, did indeed bear the royal serekh title. She may be the second ruler in ancient Egyptian history to have her name inscribed in this royal emblem.
At the Huaca Yolanda site in Peru's Chao Valley, a polychrome mural more than five metres long has been uncovered. Dated to the Formative Period, its motifs -- stars, fish, fishing nets -- are unprecedented in the region.
At Saqqarah, Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Sekhentio-Ptah, an Old Kingdom official bearing the title "keeper of the secrets of royal decrees", dated to the late Fifth or early Sixth Dynasty.
While packing up in Lower Silesia, Polish archaeologists discovered a Neolithic tumulus by chance: inside, a chieftain buried c. 2900 BCE with a necklace of 42 pierced teeth and two human skulls without bodies.
An Egyptian mission at Tell Abu Seifi has uncovered a 3,200-year-old inscription mentioning Horus as "Lord of the City of Mesen", identifying for the first time the location of this legendary Ramesside Egyptian city.
A study published in Science Advances reveals that hunter-gatherers in Sulawesi, Indonesia, were consuming betel nut 25,000 years ago. Arecoline residues detected in their teeth push back the known origins of psychoactive substance use by nearly 22,000 years.
A Danish study of pottery from Hama, Syria, shows that 4,500 years ago Near Eastern communities were already using different vessels for different ingredients. Goat, gazelle, and cereals each had their own dedicated pot, revealing a level of culinary sophistication far beyond what was previously assumed.
A comparative genomics study in Science Advances reveals that the Jomon, a prehistoric culture of the Japanese archipelago, developed cold adaptations genetically distinct from those of Inuits and Siberians, illustrating evolutionary convergence.
A palaeogenomics study of 1,237 ancient individuals shows that genetic variants associated with light pigmentation only reached high prevalence in Western Europe during the Bronze Age, just 3,500 to 4,000 years ago.
Automatic crossbows, mercury rivers and a burial chamber sealed for 2,200 years: the mausoleum of China's first emperor is one of the most enigmatic sites in world archaeology. A complete dossier on what lies beneath the Xi'an mound and why archaeologists refuse to open it.
Read more →The Algerian plateau of Tassili n'Ajjer houses 15,000 rock works documenting 10,000 years of history -- from the giant buffalo of the humid period to the desert's dromedaries. A unique testimony to the Sahara when it was green.
Read more →Some 3,000 years ago, an unknown Bronze Age civilization buried masks with protruding eyes, bronze trees, and colossal statues in sacrificial pits in Sichuan. The rediscovery of Sanxingdui rewrote the history of ancient China.
Read more →At Saqqarah, the pyramid of Pepi II holds the largest known collection of Pyramid Texts. For the first time in 90 years, an international archaeological mission reopens its chambers, armed with cutting-edge technology.
Watch the documentary →Beneath the sands of Saqqara, a fascinating underground world: the Serapeum with its colossal granite sarcophagi, the 60 intact coffins discovered in 2020, and the incomparable reliefs of the mastaba of Ti.
Watch the documentary →How did thé Egyptians build their pyramids? At Saqqara, récent excavations reveal workshops, tools, and construction diaries including thé "Merer Papyrus" - thé first contemporary document of Khufu's construction site ever found.
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