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Treasure? Yep, priceless, golden, sparkly treasure.
An amazing finding in the heart of Cologne.
Heat is bringing out ancient features.
An unfortunate centuries-old riddle was solved thanks to an unusual clue: a label.
Ancient burial could tell us a lot about human-animal relationships.
It's not an everyday find.
'Every step you take' meets archaeology.
These ancient populations were impressively resilient.
Prehistoric booze.
Modern science explains how an ancient ritual worked.
It's a rare glimpse into the life of an Egyptian priestess.
The site was first found in the 70's, but couldn't be accurately dated until now.
The settlement, named Dhaskalio, was simply stunning for its time.
The Two Brothers turned out to be, in fact, brothers. But it wasn't an easy feat.
Children in the future will have a much soggier view of their roots.
Caesar's incursion in Britain might have been more successful than we thought.
Among the most intriguing findings are a group of (likely ceremonial) cauldrons that show signs of long-term use and repair.
Ironically, the archaeologist hasn't even visited Saudi Arabia.
You thought we found everything, didn't you?
Canaanites were flourishingly pagan before Joshua came in.
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When you can correlate computer models of comets with carvings from 13 millennia ago -- that's got to feel good.
It's the 14th family member archaeologists have found in the area.
Can't spell 'archaeology' without 'alcohol'.
Large, mysterious earthworks built thousands of years ago were discovered in the Amazon basin.
It's way better than Facebook.
A drink to die for.
The ancient gardens featured fountains, ponds, and a huge swimming pool.
Archaeologists are still divided on what the finding actually means.
The ancient bones could offer valuable DNA information from an ancient shipwreck victim.
Archaeologists have unearthed an intact female figure carved from marble, dating from up to 10,000 years ago.
This is the closest we've come to seeing an ancient Egyptian woman.
Modern archaeology is a lot like crime scene investigation.
It probably didn't go boom, but it's still an impressive find.
It's perhaps the stinkiest cheese in the world right now, after molding at the bottom of a shipwreck for centuries.
Short, round skulls were the norm then.
Who needs Indiana Jones?
‘Theoretically the stuff is still edible - but we wouldn’t say it’s advisable’
Rhapta was one of the most prosperous cities on the African coast, and one of the last trading posts of the Roman Empire.
It's way older than divers thought.
Several tablets from the Roman Age have been uncovered and analyzed following excavation in London, including the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain and the first ever reference to London.
Israel Antiques Authority (IAA) archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a 1,600 year-old complex of glass kilns in the Jezreel Valley. Their size indicates that Israel was one of the most important glass manufacturing center in the ancient world, says Dr. Yael Gorin-Rosen, IAA's Glass Department head curator.
The first images of Viking treasure, stashed in a pot more than 1,000 years ago and buried in a field in Galloway, have been made public by the conservators working to preserve them. The items, including six silver disk brooches, a gold ingot and Byzantine silk, are not currently on display.
British archaeologists have uncovered five Roman roads built over 2,000 years ago using a technology called LIDAR - a mix between LASER and RADAR.
Following ISIS's attack and destruction of the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, Italy and the United Nations have joined forces to protect cultural heritage sites in conflict zones.
Archaeologists from the Charles University in Prague have made a stunning discovery in Egypt: they found a stunningly well preserved long boat, buried for four and a half millennia. The discovery was made at Abusir, “the House or Temple of Osiris” and an extensive necropolis with many well documented findings. But Egypt still has a story to […]
Archaeologists have discovered something as valuable as the Roman Pompeii.
Archaeologists believe they have found the he tomb of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, who ruled over the Ottoman empire from 1520 to 1566, near the fortress of Szigetvar in southern Hungary.
Even inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, outside of Cairo, researchers have found something interesting.
The ancient Greek shipwreck that produced the awesome Antikythera mechanism, hailed as the world's first analog computer (being almost two millenia old), had archaeologists' collective pants full of ants and it seems that their enthusiasm was well placed. The shipwreck is slowly yielding new artifacts, offering a glimpse into the lifestyles of the ancient "1%" in the Hellenic peninsula.
