2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (852+ words) Archaeologists excavating Hattusa in central Türkiye have uncovered a large storage complex dating back roughly 3,800 years to the Assyrian Trade Colonies Period, revealing new evidence about the economic life of the settlement before it became the capital of the Hittite…...

10+ hour, 48+ min ago   (1055+ words) A centuries-old search for the site of one of the most consequential Viking defeats in Anglo-Saxon England may be narrowing in on an Iron Age hillfort in rural Devon. Castle Hill, near Beaford in North Devon, has emerged as a…...

1+ day, 46+ min ago   (454+ words) The submerged prehistoric settlement of Gran Carro, resting on the bed of Lake Bolsena in Italy’s Viterbo province, has given up another round of remarkable finds. Just months after divers recovered the first known Iron Age textile fragment from the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (344+ words) Sometime around 1486 BCE, one of the most powerful men in Egypt simply disappeared. No death record. No burial. His two tombs — one of them decorated with the oldest star map ever found in Egypt- were abandoned mid-construction, tools still scattered…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (731+ words) Underwater surveys off Italy’s Elba Island have revealed a large Roman dolium and the remains of a wooden vessel that archaeologists have not yet been able to identify or precisely date. The discoveries were made during an underwater archaeological monitoring…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (542+ words) AI has spent the past several years chipping away at the problem from one direction only, turning ancient Akkadian into modern English. TabletCraft, developed by Zhaohui Wang at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, is the first…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (632+ words) Sometimes the smallest objects carry the biggest stories. Buried deep in the hills of California’s interior, far from any ocean breeze, archaeologists uncovered a small, round bead carved from a giant rock scallop shell. It doesn’t look like much: barely…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (502+ words) Now, after years of study and restoration, the team behind the discovery is ready to share the full story — not just of Annion herself, but of the larger family complex she belonged to, and of the work it took to…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (686+ words) On a windswept island off Norway’s west coast, the ground keeps talking. For nearly two centuries, researchers have picked through the ruins of Selja, the country’s oldest known pilgrimage site, certain they had mapped its story in stone and legend....

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (333+ words) Historical records describe smallpox wiping out entire Native American communities within weeks. So why have archaeologists found evidence for fewer than 20 victims across the whole of the Americas? Faced with this gap between written history and the physical record, the…...