80,000-year-old projectile points discovered in Uzbekistan
Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known hafted projectile points in Central Asia at Kulbulak cave in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago, challenging our …
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Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known hafted projectile points in Central Asia at Kulbulak cave in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago, challenging our …
Read →Valencian researchers have uncovered irrefutable evidence of cannibalism in a Spanish Neolithic cave dating to 5,000 to 4,500 BCE: human bones bearing the same cut …
Read →Excavations in Burgos province have revealed an exceptional Neanderthal camp dating to 55,000 to 70,000 years ago: organised hearths, hunted animal remains, and human bones shed light on the lifestyle of these extinct hominins.
Excavations at ancient Gela in Sicily have uncovered a 5th-century BCE bone stylus, a rare witness to the practice of writing in the daily life of western Greek colonies during the Classical period.
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem applied computational methods to identify the Cryptic B Script of the Qumran manuscripts as a substitution cipher based on the Phoenician alphabet, one of the oldest known cryptographic systems.
Italian maritime archaeologists explored by ROV an exceptionally well-preserved Hellenistic wreck off the Calabrian coast, with an intact hull and a cargo of hundreds of Aegean wine amphorae dating to the 2nd century BCE.
Read →A Franco-Egyptian IEASM mission has mapped 43 monumental blocks of the Lighthouse of Alexandria lying on the floor…
Read →Agricultural work in the Plovdiv region has brought to light thirty gold and silver objects dated to the 2nd centu…
Read →Spanish and Egyptian archaeologists confirmed in 2025 the identification of tomb C4 as belonging to Pharaoh Thutmo…
Read →Metal detectorists discovered in 2025 in west Norfolk an exceptionally preserved bronze carnyx, accompanied by a boar standard and five shield bosses, forming the most complete Celtic military assemblage ever found in Britain.
An Egyptian-Italian archaeological mission has uncovered a previously unknown Old Kingdom necropolis at Gabal El Tier in Upper Egypt, comprising mastabas decorated with paintings and hieroglyphic inscriptions dated to around 2700-2500 BCE.
Extensive excavations at Ringhill in County Down, Northern Ireland, reveal a settlement of more than 200 circular structures occupied between 1210 and 780 BCE -- the largest Bronze Age agglomeration ever discovered in Ireland.
Ongoing excavations on the heights of Mount Papoura in central Crete are revealing a large-scale circular settlement dated to around 3000 BCE, testifying to sophisticated social and ritual organisation at the dawn of Minoan civil…
Read →Around 3400 BCE, Sumerian scribes in Uruk devised the first written signs in history to keep their accounts. From …
Read →3,700 years ago, Louisiana hunter-gatherers erected a complex of earthen semi-ridges covering two square kilometre…
Read →700 km south of Egypt, the kingdom of Kerma was between 2500 and 1500 BCE the first great sub-Saharan African civi…
Read →In the Austrian Alps, the Hallstatt salt mine generated one of Europe's first aristocratic civilisations. Between 1200 and 450 BCE, Hallstatt elites controlled a commercial network linking the Celtic world to the Mediterranean.
Read →Between 5000 and 500 BCE, Neolithic communities built villages on the shores of alpine lakes. Preserved in mud for…
Read →At 3,177 meters altitude in Peru, Chavín de Huántar was between 900 and 200 BCE the greatest pilgrimage center of …
Read →Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, dozens of giant species vanished from the planet. Mammoths, cave lions, megat…
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