A Bronze Age Warrior's Tomb Discovered Beneath a Kurgan in Azerbaijan
In the Keshikchidagh reserve of western Azerbaijan, kurgan no. 4 in the Sariyokhush valley has yielded the remains of a Middle Bronze Age w…
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In the Keshikchidagh reserve of western Azerbaijan, kurgan no. 4 in the Sariyokhush valley has yielded the remains of a Middle Bronze Age w…
Read →Ancient proteomics analysis of 23 teeth from Rising Star Cave reveals no trace of amelogenin Y. Does this mean all individuals buried in th…
Read →A digitally reprocessed photograph reveals that Merneith, a figure of Egypt's First Dynasty, did indeed bear the royal serekh title. She ma…
Read →At Saqqarah, Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Sekhentio-Ptah, an Old Kingdom official bearing the title "keeper of the se…
Read →While packing up in Lower Silesia, Polish archaeologists discovered a Neolithic tumulus by chance: inside, a chieftain buried c. 2900 BCE w…
Read →The tomb of royal scribe Nisemro, created under Thutmose III, was continuously reused for seven centuries by at least twelve distinct indiv…
Read →The discovery of 225 faience funerary figurines bearing pharaoh Sheshonq III's titulary formally identifies his tomb at Tanis, ending decad…
Read →Valencian researchers have uncovered irrefutable evidence of cannibalism in a Spanish Neolithic cave dating to 5,000 to 4,500 BCE: human bo…
Read →Spanish and Egyptian archaeologists confirmed in 2025 the identification of tomb C4 as belonging to Pharaoh Thutmosis II (c. 1493-1479 BCE)…
Read →An Egyptian-Italian archaeological mission has uncovered a previously unknown Old Kingdom necropolis at Gabal El Tier in Upper Egypt, compr…
Read →In the Austrian Alps, the Hallstatt salt mine generated one of Europe's first aristocratic civilisations. Between 1200 and 450 BCE, Hallsta…
Read →In 2007, archaeologists uncovered a Neolithic couple buried face-to-face in an embrace near Mantua. Their 6,000-year clasp became one of pr…
Read →Some 12,000 years ago, a young man with severe acromegaly survived for years in a Calabrian cave. Someone fed him, helped him. A rare testa…
Read →Discovered in 2013 in a nearly inaccessible cave in South Africa, Homo naledi combines a primitive australopith-sized brain with almost mod…
Read →Study of specimen Qafzeh 25, a Homo sapiens from the Levant dated 92,000 years ago, reveals a sharp-force jaw wound, partial healing sugges…
Read →A proteomic analysis of dental enamel from 20 <em>Homo naledi</em> individuals detected no male markers whatsoever. All fossils from Rising…
Read →In 2023, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger claimed that Homo naledi, a hominin species with a very small brain, had buried its dead and produc…
Read →While digging fortifications in southern Ukraine, soldiers uncovered a 2,500-year-old Greek tomb near Mykolaiv: an intact amphora and oinoc…
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 →In 2007, archaeologists uncovered near Mantua, Italy, a unique Neolithic burial: two individuals interred face to face, limbs intertwined, …
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