Göbekli Tepe: a human statue walled up for 12,000 years, an offering from the first builders
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 Gö…
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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 Gö…
Read →While packing up in Lower Silesia, Polish archaeologists discovered a Neolithic tumulus by chance: inside, a chieftain buried c. 2900 BCE w…
Read →Mysterious handbag symbols carved on the pillars of the 11,600-year-old Turkish site of Gobekli Tepe may represent a bird's-eye view of the…
Read →Ongoing excavations on the heights of Mount Papoura in central Crete are revealing a large-scale circular settlement dated to around 3000 B…
Read →3,700 years ago, Louisiana hunter-gatherers erected a complex of earthen semi-ridges covering two square kilometres. Poverty Point, a UNESC…
Read →Between 5000 and 500 BCE, Neolithic communities built villages on the shores of alpine lakes. Preserved in mud for millennia, these sites o…
Read →In 2007, archaeologists uncovered near Mantua, Italy, a unique Neolithic burial: two individuals interred face to face, limbs intertwined, …
Read →In Germany, preventive excavations ahead of the SuedOstLink power line project have uncovered a 5,000-year-old ritual pit complex attribute…
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 →In 2007, archaeologists near Mantua discovered two Neolithic skeletons embracing, forehead to forehead, for 6,000 years. The Lovers of Vald…
Read →In the Alentejo, a 16-hectare ditched complex built between 3400 and 2000 BCE reveals an inter-regional ceremonial centre: African ivory, S…
Read →In Egypt's Minya governorate, Predynastic tombs with tapered walls illuminate the path from simple pits to the monuments of Giza.
Read →A study published in Nature reveals that Yersinia pestis was killing Siberian hunter-gatherer communities 5,500 years ago, long before citi…
Read →Near Târgu Neamț, LiDAR-equipped drones pierced the canopy and unveiled Copper Age fortifications invisible from the ground: defensive ditc…
Read →At Jabal al-Tayr in Middle Egypt, a vast necropolis five millennia old reveals the evolution of funerary architecture, from the tombs of ea…
Read →At this twin site of Göbekli Tepe, a monolith nearly 12,000 years old bears a sharply defined human face. Never seen before.
Read →A University of York study published in Antiquity shows that Mohenjo-daro, the largest city of the Indus Civilisation, became more egalitar…
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