- Illegal gold mining obliterates archaeological sites in Sudan (details)
- Romans in a Red Sea trading port bought monkeys from India as pets (details)
- Africa’s early music traditions are traced through scattered artifacts (details)
- Port construction in northern Chile unearths well dressed, well preserved mummies (details)
- Boxgrove site in Britain offers rare glimpse of ice age tool kit (details)
- Island chain in eastern Indonesia reveals evidence of early human migration (details)
- Work continues on historical Black cemeteries in America (details)
- Ancient stone monuments in Saudi Arabia offer clues to early pastoral peoples (details)
- Fluted tools were developed independently in North America and Arabia (details)
- Divers find rare intact Inca offerings in South American lake (details)
- Australian mining company apologizes for destroying Aboriginal heritage site (details)
- Northern Ireland’s Navan Fort may be part of larger temple complex (details)
- Studies of pirate shipwreck suggests Blackbeard abandoned it intentionally (details)
- Viking age burials produce smallpox DNA that adds new twist to history (details)
- New studies from Mexican cave and other early sites put North American arrival at 30,000 years ago (details)
- New site in Jerusalem is from time of the biblical kings (details)
- Korea Legoland theme park plows through priceless prehistoric site (details)
- Volcano in Alaska helped push Roman Republic to the tipping point (details)
- Bad water in Maya city of Tikal came partly from dangerous paint (details)
- Old spy photos and new satellite technology find 14,000 new sites in northeastern Syria (details)
- Bone isotope studies trace how maize became the cornerstone of Mesoamerican diets (details)
- New DNA studies show multiple Caribbean migrations, followed by local culture change (details)
- Sea otter studies help explain the past and guide the present (details)
- Ancient death in Turkey illuminates the turbulence of early social change (details)
- 3D Footprints in Tanzania suggest gendered group activities (details)
- Competition with modern humans may have been the cause of Neanderthal extinction, new research suggests (details)
- Cadaver dogs may become archaeologists’ newest noninvasive tool (details)
- Bone arrowpoint in southern Africa gives early date for advanced human cognition (details)
- Cahokia city causeway shows link between the living, the dead, and the Milky Way (details)
- Early immigrants into the Indonesian islands switched from fish diet to giant rat (details)
- High-energy X-rays help study and conserve metal artifacts from Renaissance-era ship (details)
- Archaeological evidence puts pandemic effects into historical perspective (details)
- Ottoman merchant ship carried a surprisingly abundant cargo (details)
- New study: Salish Sea basin was very densely populated and had very ancient culture (details)
- Rising seas drove Scandinavian hunter-gatherers toward marine resources (details)
- Culturally distinct cuisines among ancient Baltic hunter-gatherers (details)
- New series of direct dates on contact period sites upends assumptions about Iroquois history (details)
- Bones from Çatalhöyük show practice of household burials, differences in women’s lifestyle (details)
- Bulgarian grave mound turns up unique objects from Roman empire (details)
- The first Africans in Mexico City reveal insights into infectious diseases (details)
- Melting ice in Norwegian pass reveals artifacts tracing trade and upland farming (details)
- Molecular analysis shows history of milk and meat diet of east African cattle-herders (details)
- Iron Age British rabbits and chickens were pets, not food, and sacred to the gods (details)
- Sites in Alaska show heavy traffic, hunting and occupation in extreme weather (details)
- Oldest string ever found shows new evidence of Neanderthal brain power (details)
- Mexican site shows how Mesoamerican copper smelting was adapted to new Spanish needs (details)
- German Bronze Age site shows increasing similarities to Stonehenge (details)
- London finds from 3000 years ago suggest long use for settlement and rituals (details)
- Mammoth bone circle may be ice age Russian house (details)
- New book debunks claim that Ponce de Leon was first European to see Florida (details)
- Indonesian stone carvings are oldest stand-alone Ice Age art from southeast Asia (details)
- New stupa find in Bangladesh is unusual pyramid shape and size (details)
- Protecting and preserving ancient sites at risk from sea-level rise In Florida (details)
- Olives first domesticated 7,000 years ago in Israel, study says (details)
- Eggshell beads made by hunter-gatherers 33,000 years ago used as a social network (details)
- Ancient art found in Basque country changes understanding of prehistoric society (details)
- New survey to search for shipwrecks off California’s Channel Islands (details)
- Indian museum exhibit recreates Harappan menu, stirring up new fight over ancient diet (details)
- New databases of evidence from Incan conquest period show extent of forced relocation (details)
- Italian monastery turns up ancient sword showing development of bronze in Anatolia (details)
- Recovered crew artifacts from ill-fated Franklin Expedition support new hypotheses (details)
- Image of Egyptian sun God Ra discovered in ancient coffin at Harvard (details)
- Collapse of reservoir’s dam could have influenced importance of Angkor Wat (details)
- Significant 7th century BC tomb almost lost to construction of new sports complex in Italy (details)
- Medieval mansion site explored in west London (details)
- New studies show Cahokia area continued to thrive after giant city was abandoned (details)
- Cave site suggests Neanderthals migrated into Siberia twice, the second time from Europe (details)
- Assyrian gods appear in new rock carvings from Kurdistan (details)
- Basque whaling ship reassembled in celebration of local maritime history (details)
- Surprising DNA finds provide new insight into spread of human populations from sub-Saharan Africa (details)
- Extensive Aboriginal ancient aquaculture system uncovered by Australian bushfires (details)
- World’s oldest mosaic found in lost Hittite city (details)
- New reading of a viking runestone suggests fear of a climate disaster (details)
- Search begins for unmarked African-American graves in Clearwater (details)
- Researchers publish 1,400 Iraqi cuneiform tablets stored at Hobby Lobby, many now missing (details)
- New oldest sketch of Venice discovered (details)
- New research on lost North American crops proves them as productive as maize (details)
- Analysis shows people from across Ireland brought their own cattle to huge Iron Age feasts (details)
- In eastern Mexico, archaeologists discover huge ancient Maya palace (details)
- Magnetic anomaly reveals reason behind stone circle in Scotland (details)
- Cutting edge technology in Texas aids archaeologists in critical documentation of rock art sites (details)
- One of the world’s most famous structures has been going by wrong name for 2,000 years (details)
- Long suspected mass gravesites identified from Tulsa Race Massacre (details)
- Tar gum reveals 6000-year-old human DNA (details)
- Archaeologists uncover evidence of earliest known population in Connecticut (details)
- 6,000 wine amphorae dating to time of Jesus found in shipwreck on Greek sea floor (details)
- Archaeologists now can more closely date when Christianity spread to Ethiopia (details)
- First evidence of head cones found in ancient Egyptian tombs (details)
- Frozen Pleistocene puppy may answer an ancient question: “Dog-or” wolf£ (details)
- Cuneiform tablets in Iraq have outer envelopes with intricate and artistic security seals (details)
- Climate change threatens enormously important early sites on Puerto Rico’s coast (details)
- Iron Age warrior in Yorkshire found buried on his battered shield, with horses still pulling his chariot (details)
- African-American cemetery rediscovered in Tampa, Florida (details)
- Varying sizes of ostrich eggshell beads suggests cohesion of changing African communities (details)
- It might not have been Homo sapiens, but bad luck, that wiped out Neanderthals (details)
- New chemical analysis technique used to recreate early Puerto Rican dish (details)
- LiDAR technology provides insight into egalitarian Native American settlement in Florida (details)
- Location of Navy submarine revealed after being lost in translation for 75 years (details)
- New evidence points to climate change felling Neo-Assyrian Empire (details)
- New genome research suggests Ancient Egyptians caught wild birds for mummification (details)
- Laser technology reveals Bronze Age monument in Forest of Dean (details)
- Final journey of 5,300-year-old ice mummy identified by frozen moss (details)
- Danger Cave among state monument candidates selected in Utah (details)
- New excavations at Monte Verde could prove it to be earliest human settlement in South America (details)
- Michelle Hilling, founding partner in Audio News and Archaeologica, dies after a brief illness. (details)
- Archaeologist uses online map to identify 27 previously undiscovered Maya ritual sites (details)
- 30 3,000-year-old Egyptian coffins opened to reveal well preserved mummies inside (details)
- Cache shows what a well-prepared Bronze Age warrior brought to the battlefield (details)
- Thousands of Native American heritage sites will be underwater by 2100 (details)
- First evidence for prehistoric baby bottles found in Bavaria, Germany (details)
- Bronze head-shaped jar belonging to an ancient sports fan found in Bulgarian grave (details)
- New technique helps archaeologists limit bone destruction (details)
- New analysis of Native American DNA reveals migration patterns across US (details)
- New hypothesis for Neanderthal extinction involves common childhood illness (details)
- Answers to Neolithic aquaculture discovered in China (details)
- Icelandic walrus extinction likely due to over-exploitation (details)
- Bronze statuette from the 6th century BCE discovered on St. Cyricus Island (details)
- 'Lovers of Modena,' buried with hands intertwined, revealed to be men (details)
- Electrician finds a 4,500-year-old dagger at a burial cave in Israel (details)
- Native American ruins found in the path of a highway project in Colorado (details)
- New study explains how one well-preserved Dead Sea Scroll outlasted all the others (details)
- Six-headed burial in Scotland may shed light on medieval clan warfare (details)
- Hohokam skeleton found below golf course in southern Arizona (details)
- New Denisovan finger bone data suggests closer relationship to modern humans (details)
- Mural depicting a humanlike toad discovered in Peru (details)
- Boys’ skeletons with artificially-shaped skulls found in Croatia (details)
- Submerged boat building site reveals skills used 2,000 years earlier than expected (details)
- Altar in Atorath appears to reference an ancient biblical war (details)
- Preserving the Alamo from rising groundwater in its soil (details)
- Inscription from Paphos shows ancient city states in Cyprus mixed local innovation with Greek and other influences (details)
- Wooden chest from Pompeii reveals magician’s toolkit of lucky charms (details)
- Iceland excavations find new buildings at large Medieval and Viking era site (details)
- New study of pre-contact Panamanian site shows high importance of deer for ritual feasting (details)
- Israeli site from Egyptian times produces 3500-year-old fertility goddesses (details)
- Early site in Ecuador reveals new coastal archaic phase (details)
- Baltic waters reveal well preserved ship from the early Age of Exploration (details)
- Sweden and Norway report new finds of Viking burial ships (details)
- Evidence of workshops for famed purple dye found in Phoenician site materials (details)
- Early Chinese site shows evidence of skull shaping for over 6,000 years (details)
- Houston dig finds thousands of artifacts from historic German, African American and Mexican neighborhood (details)
- Giant carvings in Peruvian desert revealed to depict foreign birds (details)
- Evidence of “Britain's Atlantis” settlements found under North Sea (details)
- Ancient tomb painter used heating techniques to modify pigments (details)
- Colonial “time capsule” found under floorboards of burned 1760s port tavern (details)
- In Austria, ancient charred ‘Cheerios’ open new lines of inquiry (details)
- New analysis of burials and diet from digs at Rome’s seaport tells the story of Roman decline (details)
- Khipus from new Peruvian site suggest system of Inca taxation on farm crops (details)
- New Brunswick development brings regimental history into collision with early settlement materials (details)
- Researchers in Germany work against the clock to identify 1000 year old body. (details)
- Team in Normandy attempting to preserve and catalogue every remnant of D-Day. (details)
- Ancient Scottish well uncovered for the first time since the Victorians. (details)
- Wreckage of last US slave ship found on the bayou. (details)
- Iron-Age shield from England was made from carefully layered bark (details)
- Australian aboriginal aquaculture site proposed for UNESCO world heritage list (details)
- Roman forum area dig produces beautiful new marble head (details)
- Moche stew pot buried in Peru offered all the ingredients in the environment (details)
- Urine residues in central Turkey are key to understanding domestication of livestock. (details)
- Molten metal used in ancient Roman road repair. (details)
- Shallow river levels reveal swathes of Canadian historical artifacts. (details)
- Russian farmer accidentally uncovers ancient Sarmatian burial mound. (details)
- Secret chamber found in Nero’s palace decorated with centaurs and a sphinx (details)
- Richest cache of ancient mind-altering drugs found in South America (details)
- New finds at Hadrian’s Wall: A game board and horseshoes (details)
- Study finds increased use of quartz tools 14,000 years ago linked to mysticism (details)
- New lidar finds in Mayan Guatemala include burial chamber of a king and queen (details)
- New results from Hagia Sophia research show larger size and beautifully different exterior (details)
- New tombs found in Egypt from Old Kingdom pyramid area (details)
- Spanish anchor found off Veracruz may be from fleet of conquistador Cortes (details)
- Mesoamerican sculptors used magnetic rock to create meaningful figures. (details)
- Researchers discover an entire venomous snake in prehistoric Texas feces. (details)
- Archaeologists uncover the complex architectural systems of Early Cycladic society across Greek islands. (details)
- Archaeologists in Alaska discover a gruesome 350 year old massacre. (details)
- Translation of Cherokee cave inscriptions reveals ceremonial and sacred history (details)
- French kindergarteners find Bell Beaker pottery and burials in their playground (details)
- Cave in Croatia produces first Paleolithic figurative cave art in the Balkans (details)
- Zoo construction in Rio uncovers thousands of artifacts from Brazil’s period of empire (details)
- Archaeologists uncover sacrifices that could be the first discovered Aztec royal burial. (details)
- Archaeologists discover that 17th century Icelanders burned whale bones alongside wood. (details)
- Stamp and seal bearing biblical names uncovered in City of David. (details)
- Detailed statue of a Roman emperor found in 356 pieces. (details)
- Egyptian ship is first example of unique construction described by Herodotus in 450 BC (details)
- Search continues for ships Cortes burned in 1519 (details)
- Persian-era jar from Israel depicts ugly good-luck deity (details)
- Global comparative study shows moralizing deities come after rise of complex societies, not before (details)
- Forgotten board game rules unearthed in ancient Chinese tomb (details)
- DNA study shows that men in Spain 4500 years ago left little genetic legacy (details)
- 200 year old pipe provides scientific breakthrough at Maryland plantation site (details)
- An unearthed Greek inscription marks the site of a lost Incense Route city (details)
- Archaeologists surprised to discover that Neanderthals ate “fast” food (details)
- Archaeologists discover a Maya ritual cave, untouched for 1,000 years (details)
- World’s ‘oldest’ tattooing kit found in a box years after it was thought to be destroyed (details)
- Rare Roman quarry graffiti to be captured in 3D (details)
- Smuggled mummy parts caught at Cairo airport (details)
- Facial recognition software helps put names to soldiers in Civil War photos (details)
- Byzantine-era estate in Israel produces Greek inscription blessing the owner (details)
- Cactus spine needle with pigment reveals use of tattooing by ancestral Puebloans (details)
- Archaeologist names Native American pottery as the original social networks (details)
- Notable Viking warrior remains confirmed to be female (details)
- Archaeologists apply new techniques to strange ancient Corsican burials uncovered in the 1960s (details)
- Pieces of Stonehenge found to have been dragged 180 miles from Wales (details)
- Terracotta mask of emperor found in early monastery site on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast (details)
- New study of 2,000 megalith dates puts origin in northwest France, with spread along coastlines (details)
- House of Leda fresco in Pompeii reveals vivid painting of Narcissus, along with other luxuries (details)
- Airport construction for more tourism threatens many sites around Machu Picchu (details)
- Identity of mysterious Roman woman in Slovenian cemetery eludes archaeologists. (details)
- Lost South African metropolis discovered by advanced laser technology. (details)
- Eroded Alaskan graveyard provides fresh data on ancient Arctic populations. (details)
- Uzbek-Russian archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Asian fortress. (details)
- Western Indian find of early Buddha depiction adds to understanding of Buddhism’s spread (details)
- U.S. government shutdown harms cultural resource research and researchers nationwide (details)
- Scratched-out names and faces of ancient Egpytian couple was an effort to erase their afterlife (details)
- World’s oldest classroom periodic table is found in Scottish storeroom (details)
- Medieval woman’s blue teeth could begin new avenue of archaeology (details)
- Research points to seagrass as natural underwater preservation (details)
- Ancient Mongolian bones show they were more likely to fall off horses than get sick (details)
- Polish archaeologists discover Maya tomb is actually ancient steam room (details)