Lost Amazon city: 396 geoglyphs revealed by laser, 3 million inhabitants
A University of Helsinki team has detected 396 geoglyphs buried beneath the Brazilian forest using lidar. These remains belong to the Aquir…
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A University of Helsinki team has detected 396 geoglyphs buried beneath the Brazilian forest using lidar. These remains belong to the Aquir…
Read →Archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin have dated the Amnya site in western Siberia to more than 8,000 years old. These fortification…
Read →Long attributed to Ramesses II, a painted sandstone block at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been reattributed to Amenhotep II, c. 1400 …
Read →The University of Leiden archaeological mission discovered in July 2026 on the west bank of Luxor an intact Ramesside tomb dating to around…
Read →During railway construction near Kojetin in Moravia, Czech Republic, archaeologists uncovered bronze tools deliberately destroyed and burie…
Read →Two long stone embankments on the Dahshur plateau, attributed since 1897 to simple hauling ramps, have just been reinterpreted as water ret…
Read →In the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, renewed excavations at Shanidar Cave by the University of Cambridge have uncovered the remains …
Read →Discovered by chance in the tin mines of the Jos Plateau in Nigeria, Nok sculptures dated between the 9th century BC and the 2nd century AD…
Read →Off the island of Sein in Finistere, archaeologists have uncovered several alignments of submerged granite blocks dating to 5,800-5,300 BCE…
Read →Carbonised wooden beams dating to the Babylonian conquest of 586 BCE have been discovered in the City of David. Paradoxically preserved by …
Read →Discovered in 1936 in a First Dynasty mastaba at Saqqara, the trilobate grey schist Sabu Disk remains one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic…
Read →At Tell Nabasha, site of ancient Imet in the Nile Delta, Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the fragments of a colossal pink granite st…
Read →Recent research pushes back human occupation of the Grand Canyon to more than 12,000 years, from Clovis hunters to Ancestral Puebloan villa…
Read →At Heliopolis, the spiritual heart of ancient Egypt now engulfed by Cairo, Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the relief-decorated tom…
Read →In the Nile Delta, the Tell Kom Aziza site has yielded an exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman cemetery, with mummies adorned with pain…
Read →Austrian archaeologists announced in April 2026 the discovery of 32 gold and carnelian jewellery pieces on Kolona hill, Aegina. These 3,500…
Read →Near Târgu Neamț, LiDAR-equipped drones pierced the canopy and unveiled Copper Age fortifications invisible from the ground: defensive ditc…
Read →At Vitry-sur-Seine, an Inrap excavation uncovers a rare Mesolithic camp preserved by the Seine's floods. A first window onto the last hunte…
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