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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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
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 →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 →An Egyptian mission at Tell Abu Seifi has uncovered a 3,200-year-old inscription mentioning Horus as "Lord of the City of Mesen", identifyi…
Read →A Danish study of pottery from Hama, Syria, shows that 4,500 years ago Near Eastern communities were already using different vessels for di…
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 →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 …
Read →Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem applied computational methods to identify the Cryptic B Script of the Qumran manuscripts …
Read →Italian maritime archaeologists explored by ROV an exceptionally well-preserved Hellenistic wreck off the Calabrian coast, with an intact h…
Read →A Franco-Egyptian IEASM mission has mapped 43 monumental blocks of the Lighthouse of Alexandria lying on the floor of the eastern harbour, …
Read →Around 3400 BCE, Sumerian scribes in Uruk devised the first written signs in history to keep their accounts. From tokens to clay tablets, t…
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 →Long attributed to Ramesses II, a painted sandstone block at thé Metropolitan Muséum of Art has been reattributed to Amenhotep II, c. 1400 …
Read →A Levantine skull dating to approximately 100,000 years ago displays a penetrating lesion on the facial bones interpreted as intentional in…
Read →Excavations at Karain Cave reveal that two human species shared the same Anatolian territories for millennia, redrawing the map of their co…
Read →Carbonised wooden beams dating to thé Babylonian conquest of 586 BCE have been discovered in thé City of David. Paradoxically preserved by …
Read →Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the University of Liverpool have sequenced the oldest and most complete genome ever obtain…
Read →A cave sealed for 300,000 years near Fureidis, at the foot of Mount Carmel, reveals a hominin clan from the mysterious Acheulo-Yabrudian cu…
Read →In Egypt's Minya governorate, Predynastic tombs with tapered walls illuminate the path from simple pits to the monuments of Giza.
Read →At 6 months old, Neanderthal infant Amud 7 was already the size of a 13-month-old modern human. A 2026 study in Current Biology reveals a g…
Read →Fired nearly 2,800 years ago, jars stamped by the Kingdom of Judah froze the state of Earth's magnetic field into their clay. They reveal a…
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