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For years, many people pictured the crumbling temples of northern Yucatán as empty stone left behind by a vanished people. A new study in Latin American Antiquity says this picture is wrong. Roberto Rosado-Ramirez of the University of Virginia studied the Maya site of Ake in Mexico and found a living town growing among the […]
WARSAW, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that a monumental building uncovered in northern Bulgaria at the […] The post Possible Praetorium Found at Roman Fortress in Bulgaria appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
Archaeologists working in western Jutland have uncovered traces of a conflict nobody knew about. The find is a belt of pits from the early Iron Age, dated to around 500 BCE. It turned up under a field near Schæfergårde, ahead of planned roadwork on Route 11 between Varde and Korskro. The belt is a long […]
Archaeologists have identified the first Late Bronze Age fortification system at Palaepaphos, an ancient city near the modern village of Kouklia in Cyprus. The Department of Antiquities announced the finding after the August and September 2026 dig season at a site called Marchello. A team from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) ran […]
Archaeologists in southern Spain have mapped the full floor plan of a Roman roadside station without digging a single trench. The building stands on the edge of the ancient town of Mellaria, near present-day Fuente Obejuna in Córdoba province. Miriam González Nieto of the University of Hamburg reports the find in the Journal of Archaeological […]
DIYARBAKIR PROVINCE, TURKEY—According to a Türkiye Today report, green malachite and copper has been uncovered […] The post 9,000-Year-Old Workshop Uncovered in Turkey appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Taylor & Francis, human remains found in a […] The post Roman Sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey Likely Held Remains of Medieval Monk appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
ÇANAKKALE, TURKEY—Excavations in western Anatolia at the site of Hisarlık, which is also known as […] The post Unusual Objects Unearthed at Troy appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
XI’AN, CHINA—Science Alert reports that an analysis of fingerprints preserved in the clay of a […] The post Who Crafted China’s Terracotta Army? appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
VALLETTA, MALTA—Analysis of deep grooves in the bedrock on the islands of the Maltese archipelago […] The post Wheel Ruts in Malta Analyzed appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
Archaeologists have put a firm date on a type of stone tomb long seen across the Sahara but rarely studied. A team from the University of Girona and the Sahrawi Ministry of Culture excavated one in northern Western Sahara. The burial dates to between about 4,417 and 4,100 years ago. The tomb sits beside Wadi […]
NAVARRE, SPAIN—Well-preserved Neanderthal hand bones containing collagen have been recovered from northern Spain’s Abauntz Cave, […] The post Neanderthal Hand Bones Discovered in Spain appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA—According to the Greek Reporter, traces of 96 small structures have been found at […] The post People Continued to Live in Maya City After Its Collapse appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
A small bearded face grins up from the lid of a clay sarcophagus found near the ancient city of Attouda in western Turkey. The head stands under 5 centimeters tall. Archaeologist Bilge Yılmaz Kolancı of Pamukkale University reports the find in the journal Cedrus and says no other lid in Anatolia carries a face like […]
KAYSERI, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that a mosaic floor dated to more than 2,000 years ago […] The post Mosaic Flooring Uncovered at Kultepe-Kanesh in Central Anatolia appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
TARAWA, KIRIBATI—An anomaly spotted in satellite imagery near the Taraia Peninsula on the South Pacific […] The post Search for Amelia Earhart’s Plane Continues appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
Workers removed modern plaster from the back wall of a village church near Lugo, Spain, in 2025. Behind the coating sat a triple window with four marble columns. The find changed how experts view Santa Eulalia de Esperante, a building long labeled a plain Romanesque country church. Art historian Francisco Singul now argues the church […]
TRUJILLO, PERU—Andina News Agency reports that the 1,400-year-old grave of an infant has been uncovered […] The post Elite Infant’s Burial Discovered at Moche Temple appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Antiquity, a faience workshop has been discovered at […] The post Faience Workshop Found in Ancient Nubia appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA—According to a Gizmodo report, Shég’ Xdaltth’i’, an archaeological site in Alaska, has been […] The post Cultural Connection Identified Between Prehistoric Sites in Alaska and Russia appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
The Sanctuary of Demeter at Macchia delle Valli, near Vetralla in central Italy, will reopen to the public after a round of excavation, conservation, and site improvements. The Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the province of Viterbo and southern Etruria ran the work with funds from Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan. […]
Malta is covered with pairs of deep grooves cut into its limestone, and people have argued about their age for hundreds of years. A new study by Joel Grima of the University of Malta, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, weighs all the evidence and finds most of these cart ruts come from […]
SPILSBY, ENGLAND—Lincolnshire World reports that the remains of a small dog were discovered during an […] The post Bones of 2,000-Year-Old Lap Dog Unearthed in Eastern England appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—The graves of more than 1,000 people have been uncovered in Copenhagen’s Hans Tavsens […] The post 19th-Century Cemetery Excavated in Copenhagen appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
CUSCO, PERU—According to a Science in Poland report, about one and a half miles of […] The post Roads and Terraces Discovered Near Machu Picchu appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.
Archaeologists in northern Spain have pulled DNA from the hand bones of a Neanderthal man who died about 46,000 years ago. The six fragments came from Abauntz Cave in Navarre. The team also got direct radiocarbon dates from the bones, a rare result for remains this old. They’re the first Neanderthal fossils found in the […]
Archaeologists digging at Sanam Temple in Napata, the old capital of the Kushite Empire in Sudan, have uncovered a faience workshop. Faience is a colored, glazed material used for beads, amulets, and small statues. Rennan Lemos of Durham University and Kathryn Howley of New York University led the team, which dug at the site from […]
Walking the Blue Mountains west of Sydney is hard work. Sandstone cliffs, thick eucalyptus forest and deep valleys hide many rock shelters, and crews on foot miss a lot of them. A University of Sydney team, working with the Dharug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation, tried a different approach. They used laser scans from the air plus […]
by Alex Brown, Durham University – The European rabbit is a common sight in the British countryside today. Yet it was not always so. They are not native to the British Isles and are one of the most devastating invasive species. The early history of rabbits in the British Isles tells the captivating story of social […]
FLORENCE, ITALY—A bronze statue of an Etruscan man wearing a toga found in 1567 may […] The post Study Suggests Etruscan Statue’s Black Coating May Be Original appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.